Implement a way to get data on Head and Page from a single database query #44595

Josehower · 2023-01-05T14:22:30Z

Describe the feature you'd like to request

To start, I want to thank you for the awesome work. I have been enjoying Next.js 13 a lot and all these amazing features that you bring to us.

Experimenting with the new app directory architecture, I found it very hard to get the same data in Head.jsx and Page.jsx from a single query from the database.

In the following example, I am trying to get the title of the page for the Head, and using this title as h1 as well.

Right now, this is going to result in two different database queries:

Two separate queries to the Database

// head.jsx
import { getPageInfoFromDatabase } from '../database/index';

export default async function Head() {
  // Database query No. 1
  const pageInfo = await getPageInfoFromDatabase();

  return (
    <>
      <title>{pageInfo.title}</title>
      <meta name="description" content={pageInfo.description} />
      <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
    </>
  );
}

// page.jsx
import { getPageInfoFromDatabase } from '../database/index';

export default async function Home() {
  // Database query No. 2
  const pageInfo = await getPageInfoFromDatabase();

  return (
    <main>
        <h1>{pageInfo.title}</h1>
        <p>{pageInfo.data} </p>
    </main>
  );
}

I also created a reproduction example that presents query data directly from the page. In the example, it can be tested how the direct call approach results in multiple function call.

https://github.com/Josehower/next-13-data-fetching-demo

Describe the solution you'd like

A possible solution would be either:

A way to communicate between Head, Layout, and Page components so that I can perform a single query to get data on all of them without using an API. Similar to how you can pass props from _app.js to the page components

A possible API for this communication may be this:

// layout.jsx
import { getPageInfoFromDatabase } from '../database/index';

export default async function RootLayout({ Head, Page }) {
  const pageInfo = await getPageInfoFromDatabase();
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <Head pageInfo={pageInfo} />
      <body>
        <Page pageInfo={pageInfo} />
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Next.js using a similar approach to fetch() Deduping for direct database/function calls

Describe alternatives you've considered

I am aware that Next.js perform a fetch deduping when Head and Page perform a fetch to the same URL (API routes for example). This theoretically would solve my issue but will add some unnecessary HTTP request overhead.

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Josehower · 2023-01-05T14:31:10Z

The following example would create a single query, but it is not what I would like to have since it adds an HTTP request that I think is unnecessary.

Single query to the Database but adds unnecesary HTTP request overhead

// head.jsx

export default async function Head() {
  const request = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/pageInfo');
  const pageInfo = await request.json();


  return (
    <>
      <title>{pageInfo.title}</title>
      <meta name="description" content={pageInfo.description} />
      <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
    </>
  );
}

// page.jsx

export default async function Home() {
  const request = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/pageInfo');
  const pageInfo = await request.json();

  return (
    <main>
        <h1>{pageInfo.title}</h1>
        <p>{pageInfo.data} </p>
    </main>
  );
}

// pages/api/pageInfo.js
import { getPageInfoFromDatabase } from '../../database';

export default async function handler(req, res) {
  const pageInfo = await getPageInfoFromDatabase();
  res.status(200).json(pageInfo);
}

karlhorky · 2023-01-05T14:59:35Z

This looks like a cool proposal! 🙌 The passing of props from Layout to Head and Page would be useful for a lot of things.

Also feels like the Component prop in pages/_app.tsx:

export default function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return <Component {...pageProps} />
}

https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/custom-app

karlhorky · 2023-01-05T14:59:44Z

@sebmarkbage @leerob @timneutkens if these proposals above are not tenable and Vercel has no plans on creating these features, are there any alternative plans on offering some new APIs like react-pg, react-fs, etc as mentioned here:

Remove old react-fetch, react-fs and react-pg libraries

...we announced that we're moving away from [them] in favor of reactjs/rfcs#229.

We might explore using these package for other instrumentation in the future but not now and not like this.

Remove old react-fetch, react-fs and react-pg libraries facebook/react#25577

sebmarkbage · 2023-01-05T17:20:24Z

You can use cache from react to create a function that's deduped.

import {cache} from "react";

const getPageInfoFromDatabase = cache(function getPageInfoFromDatabase() {

});

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Josehower commented Jan 5, 2023 • edited

Describe the feature you'd like to request

Two separate queries to the Database

Describe the solution you'd like

Describe alternatives you've considered

Josehower commented Jan 5, 2023 • edited

Single query to the Database but adds unnecesary HTTP request overhead

karlhorky commented Jan 5, 2023 • edited

karlhorky commented Jan 5, 2023 • edited

sebmarkbage commented Jan 5, 2023

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