Runtime Operations
- HTTP actions: define handlers with
httpAction, register inconvex/http.tsviahttpRouter(default export REQUIRED). - HTTP Syntax:
http.route({ path: "/api/echo", // Exact path method: "POST", handler: httpAction(async (ctx, req) => { const body = await req.bytes(); return new Response(body, { status: 200 }); }), }); - HTTP actions MUST be exposed at
https://<deployment>.convex.site. - Upload URL flow: generate URL mutation → client POST → store
storageId; URLs expire after 1 hour. - HTTP upload flow:
ctx.storage.store(blob)then mutation. Uploads via HTTP actions are limited to 20MB. - Serving files:
ctx.storage.getUrl(storageId)in queries/mutations; returns signed URL ornull. - File metadata:
ctx.db.system.get("_storage", id)orquery("_storage");storage.getMetadata()is deprecated. - Scheduling:
ctx.scheduler.runAfter/runAt; cron jobs inconvex/crons.tsusingcronJobs(). - Cron Scheduling: You MUST use
crons.intervalorcrons.cron. You MUST NOT use deprecated helpers likecrons.hourly,crons.daily, orcrons.weekly. - Cron internal calls: If a cron calls an internal function, You MUST import the
internalobject from_generated/apito reference it, even if defined in the same file.
Core Rules
- HTTP actions MUST be routed only via
convex/http.tsdefault export. - HTTP actions MUST parse
Requestmanually as they do not support validators. - Search Example:
const messages = await ctx.db.query("messages") .withSearchIndex("search_body", (q) => q.search("body", "hello hi").eq("channel", "#general") ).take(10); - Vector search MUST be actions-only; results are non-reactive.
- Search behavior: full text search is relevance-ordered and uses prefix matching on the final term; fuzzy matches are deprecated.
- You SHOULD prefer search/vector filters in index definitions and query filters.
- Scheduled functions MUST remain backward compatible with args.