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Announcing Convex 0.8.0

0.8.0 brings scheduled functions and dashboard filters to Convex!

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Announcing Convex 0.7.0

Meet Convex 0.7.0! This release adds file storage, deployment history, and more!

Hello, New York City!

Convex is opening an office in NYC! Drop us a note if you're interested in working in-person at an early-stage startup.

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Announcing Convex 0.6.0

Convex isn’t just for web dev! The hottest new mobile development platform is Convex 0.6.0 with React Native support.

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Fully Reactive Pagination

Paginating over large datasets is tricky when the data is changing. Naive approaches result in missing or duplicated data. The trick is to rewrite limit queries (fetch 5 items) into range queries (fetch between cursors). Convex handles this automatically!

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Throttling Requests by Single-Flighting

There are many ways to limit client requests: throttling, debouncing, and server side rate limiting are the most common. Can we do better?

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Ready for Actions

Actions are Convex’s first foray into code that has side-effects or isn’t oriented around data access.

Launching Features Right on Time: Feature Gating

Let’s talk about feature flags. Have you ever wanted to launch a new feature at an exact time, and not just when some deployment finishes? Or made a mistake on a new feature and had to wait for a “hot fix” deploy to switch back to the old version?

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Announcing Convex 0.5.0

We have three new updates in this release that expand the power of Convex’s platform: Actions, Environment Variables, and Dashboard Changes

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The serverless revolution deserves more than just a serverless database

The serverless movement has eliminated many problems but has left application developers with the hardest one of all: managing distributed state.

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Announcing Convex 0.4.0

Another release for you all! Here are the changes in 0.4.0 (details below): * Paginated Queries * Professional Plan * Snapshot Export * Airbyte Connector * Minor Improvements Let us know what you think on our community Discord server [https://convex.dev/community]. Paginated Queries Paginated queries are here! Paginated queries allow you

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Announcing Convex 0.3.0

It’s time for Convex 0.3.0. This release brings many community-requested improvements and bug fixes including (details below): * Deleting rows in the dashboard * Breaking: Rename ConvexAPI to API * Typed HTTP client * Indexed queries return results in creation time order * New tutorial and improvements to quickstart * Script tag build

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Announcing Convex 0.2.0

Meet Convex 0.2.0. We have another batch of features and changes that we think you’ll love. Here’s a summary of the changes in this release (details below): * Edits in the Dashboard * Data Export * Better JavaScript Support in Generated Code * Breaking: Async Mutator Methods * Breaking: db.table

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Announcing Convex 0.1.9

Teams and dev deployments are here! Now you can invite your friends and coworkers to collaborate with you within a team. Iterate faster with a personal, live-updating dev deployment and deploy your functions to production when you’re ready.

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Announcing Convex 0.1.8

It’s only been 3 weeks, but we’ve been very busy improving Convex! Here are the changes this time around: * Breaking: Type Parameterized Ids * Generated convex/tsconfig.json * Smaller Bundled JS * New _creationTime Field * Breaking: Removed Support for --deployment-type * Minor Improvements As always, let us know what you think

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Announcing Convex 0.1.6

We’ve moved our npm package from convex-dev to convex! Our npm package is now published at https://www.npmjs.com/package/convex. Additionally, we added schema generation and made some other minor updates. Let us know what you think [https://docs.convex.dev/contact]! convex-dev → convex As said above,

Intro to Convex Query Performance

Convex just added index support in our 0.1.5 release [https://blog.convex.dev/announcing-convex-0-1-5/]. This post is taken from our Introduction to Indexes and Query Performance [https://docs.convex.dev/understanding/indexes-and-query-perf] documentation. How do I ensure my Convex database queries [https://docs.convex.dev/using/database-queries] are

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Announcing Convex 0.1.5

Indexes have arrived! Now you can query large datasets efficiently and with confidence! This changes in this release are: * Indexes * Bye Bye Beta Keys * Simpler Authentication * Minor Improvements As always, if you have any questions about these new features, reach out in our Convex Slack Community [https://join.slack.com/

Convex joins the Jamstack Innovation Fund

We started Convex [https://convex.dev] with a deep belief in the future of web development without complicated DevOps, fragile synchronization protocols, and the myriad other headaches traditional backends impose on developers. The inspirational vision was to let developers' responsibility end on their laptop. And to us, the viability of

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Announcing Convex 0.1.3

Schemas are here! This release has some big changes to Convex that we’re really excited to show to you all. Two of these are breaking changes that will require you to make minor updates to your app, so read carefully: * Schema Support * Breaking: Generated Code Changes * Breaking: db.update

Making Fast5 (#2): Backend Matters

Recap: In Mid May 2022, Convex released Fast5 [https://fast5.live], a multiplayer Wordle-style racing game as a demonstration of the Convex global state management platform [https://convex.dev]. Throughout May and June, we'll be featuring articles diving into how we approached various engineering challenges while creating Fast5. Previous posts:

Being Intentional with Technical Debt

Technical Debt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt] is the extra cost of current work caused by taking a shortcut in the past. Technical debt often gets a bad rep. It is often treated as symptom of a poorly run organization. Though there are some factual nuances to this

The platform you need, when you need it

One of our goals here at Convex is to provide the right level of functionality at the right time in your application’s journey. From the prototype where you want to side step binding decisions to a mature high usage application with many developers, we strive to provide the right

Making Fast5 (#1): Local and Remote State

While making Fast5, Convex's wordle-style multiplayer racing game, we ran into several interesting challenges. This week, let's dig into managing the combination of local and global state.

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Announcing Convex 0.1.2

We just pushed another update to Convex! The big updates this time around are: * Error Handling * Create React App Support * Function Size Improvements * Polish If you aren't already in the Convex Slack Community [https://join.slack.com/t/convexcommunity/shared_invite/zt-zvqpuz43-RH0rUZNT5EC39iVGox06~A] , join us! We'd love to hear about