Count the Items in a Collection with a Custom Data Loader
If users will be often querying the number of comments without also querying the list of comments
Then fetching the entire comment collection is wasteful. It's also not compatible with any pagination features that don't return the entire collection.
In this lesson, we will create a custom Data Loader specifically for counting items
Instructor: [0:00] If users will often be querying the number of comments without also querying the list of comments, then fetching the entire comment table is wasteful. It's also not compatible with any pagination we might add later since we still need the total count.
[0:14] We can give it a dedicated comment count by post idLoader that selects post ID, counts post ID, groups by post ID, where a post ID is in keys, then maps each key to the count for that post ID, or zero if there were none. Update the resolver to use the new loader.
[0:47] You can run the query again, but it will show the same output as before.