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•Created by greypixel on 2/4/2025 in #questions

Images w/ next & vercel

I watched this video a while back where Theo warns against putting images and videos in the /public directory when using vercel. It makes total sense. What I'm trying to understand, though, is what is happening when I do this:

import greypixel from "../../../assets/images/avatars/greypixel.jpg";

//...

return <img src={greypixel.src} />

import greypixel from "../../../assets/images/avatars/greypixel.jpg";

//...

return <img src={greypixel.src} />

Is this essentially the same thing? I understand the bundler is picking up the image and bundling it, and inserting the url to it into my source, but am not sure what this means from the pov of vercel bills etc? Is it best to avoid this approach?

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by greypixel on 7/12/2024 in #questions

Where's the best place to get the hash of a file?

When users upload files to my app, I want to generate the md5 hash - where's the best place to hook into the uploadthing flow to do this?

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by greypixel on 6/27/2024 in #questions

Passing async data to server components

hey guys. I have a basic question - I'm fetching some "slow" data in a server component (at the page level). There are several components on the page that depend on it, so I'm currently awaiting that data, but obviously it means I have to wait before I get anything. What's the best way to split this up so I can use suspense? Is it to await getSlowData() in every one of the components that requires it, and use unstable_cache to make sure it's deduped? Or should I be doing const slowDataPromise = getSlowData() and have the child components await the promise passed as a prop? Or (hopefully but unlikely) I’ve missed some built in way of doing this succinctly?

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by greypixel on 6/21/2024 in #questions

Throttling calls to a server function in NextJS

I have a server function that can poll if a long-running event (Ethereum transaction being mined) has completed yet. The actual request checking the blockchain is obviously also async and can take a second or two. If someone hits the page when the transaction result hasn't already been stored in the db, their client will start calling a function on the server to check the status and update the db on success. If multiple people are on this page, I don't really want to poll the blockchain excessively, so I want to early exit from calls to the server function that happen too often. Will this approach work?

const lastInvocationTimes = new Map<string, number>();

export async function pollProposalTransactionAndUpdateIfResolved({
  proposalId,
  chainId,
  transactionHash,
}: {
  proposalId: Proposal["id"];
  transactionHash: Hash;
  chainId: number;
}) {
  // unique key for the tx.
  const key = `${chainId}-${transactionHash}`;
  const lastInvocationTime = lastInvocationTimes.get(key);
  
  // Check if on cooldown.
  if (lastInvocationTime && lastInvocationTime + 1000 * 15 > Date.now()) {
    console.debug(`polling ${transactionHash} on ${chainId} throttled`);
    return;
  }

  // Not invoked recently.
  lastInvocationTimes.set(key, Date.now());
  await _pollProposalTransactionAndUpdateIfResolved({
    proposalId,
    chainId,
    transactionHash,
  });
}

const lastInvocationTimes = new Map<string, number>();

export async function pollProposalTransactionAndUpdateIfResolved({
  proposalId,
  chainId,
  transactionHash,
}: {
  proposalId: Proposal["id"];
  transactionHash: Hash;
  chainId: number;
}) {
  // unique key for the tx.
  const key = `${chainId}-${transactionHash}`;
  const lastInvocationTime = lastInvocationTimes.get(key);
  
  // Check if on cooldown.
  if (lastInvocationTime && lastInvocationTime + 1000 * 15 > Date.now()) {
    console.debug(`polling ${transactionHash} on ${chainId} throttled`);
    return;
  }

  // Not invoked recently.
  lastInvocationTimes.set(key, Date.now());
  await _pollProposalTransactionAndUpdateIfResolved({
    proposalId,
    chainId,
    transactionHash,
  });
}

Asking because I'm not sure if all clients share the same server instance, so I don't know if lastInvocationTimes will always be correct? I'm using NextJS on vercel

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by greypixel on 3/1/2024 in #questions

Is it possible to render a placeholder to display while a client component loads?

I kinda wanted <suspense> to do this for me but it doesn't seem to. Let's say I have a client component (from a library) that is 100px when it renders. When I include that in my server component, the initial HTML payload just has an empty comment where it should be (), then when the client hydrates it pops in and suddenly what was previously 0px is now 100px. I'd like to be able to render a skeleton that disappears after the hydration, is this possible?

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