Beginner Tips and Tricks to The Pit of Success with Convex

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This video explores key practices for building high-performance applications with Convex, a deterministic, reactive database designed to simplify state management and keep apps consistently fast. The speaker shares practical tips for developers on when to use queries, mutations, and actions, and why relying on Convex’s reactive caching often eliminates the need for custom local state layers. Developers will learn how to structure functions for responsiveness, avoid common pitfalls with return values, and leverage Convex’s low-level primitives to compose powerful abstractions in TypeScript. The video also highlights resources, community support, and search tools to help navigate architectural challenges. This content is ideal for frontend and full-stack developers looking to optimize real-time data handling, maintain app consistency, and deepen their understanding of Convex’s developer experience. Timestamps [00:00] Intro and Zen of Convex [00:28] Why Convex uses a deterministic reactive database [00:56] Using queries for reading data [01:16] Performance guidelines for queries and mutations [01:36] When to use actions vs. queries or mutations [02:04] Avoiding unnecessary local caches in Convex [02:43] Handling mutation return values [03:18] Composing abstractions with Convex primitives [03:44] Community, docs, and search tools for Convex [04:11] Getting help via Discord and example projects [04:25] Closing thoughts and next video recommendation Resources https://docs.convex.dev/understanding/zen https://stack.convex.dev/custom-functions https://search.convex.dev/ Hashtags #convex #database #typescript #reactiveprogramming #fullstack #frontend #stateManagement #webdev #realtime #queries #mutations