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Hey Sebastian,

A tip I’d give — when developing custom functions, upgrade your graphql-request package which will then ask for TypedDocumentNode instead of strings for your GraphQL query.

  • Add GraphQL codegen
  • Set up a script to generate your typed documents
  • Get fully typed results and query

For me, this made development significantly less error prone.

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Sounds awesome, Kenna! Could you provide a few of the steps for this and an screenshot? I think we could slate it for week 8 :slight_smile:

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Using currying or higher order functions with custom resolvers.

For example I what to send all my errors to Sentry.

// src/shared/withSentry.js
import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';

const config = {
  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN,
};

Sentry.init(config);

export const withSentry = (customFunction) => async (
  event,
  ctx,
) => {
  try {
    return await customFunction(event, ctx);
  } catch (error) {
    if (error) {
      console.error(error.message);
      console.error(JSON.stringify(error.message, null, 2));
    }

    Sentry.withScope(scope => {
      scope.setExtras({
        event,
        rawEvent: JSON.stringify(event),
        ctx,
        functionName: customFunction?.name,
        error,
      });

      Sentry.captureMessage(customFunction.name);
    });

    await Sentry.flush(2000);

    throw error;
  }
};

//----

// 
const myResolver = async (
  even,
  ctx,
) => {
  const shouldThrowError = event.data?.shouldThrowError;

  if (!!shouldThrowError) {
    throw new Error('Test error');
  }

  return {
    data: {
      success: true,
    },
  };
};

export default withSentry(myResolver);
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Hey @vyacheslav.solomin we actually have 2 content pieces coming out for the Academy that talk about using higher-order functions! You’ll see them soon :+1: