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Hi all.

In my app structure, i have a layout such as:

/clients - Parent page
/clients/[id] - Child

In the above, what's the most correct way to pass props to my child route?

I need to pass a whole object, more than just the ID

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@Havana Hi all. In my app structure, i have a layout such as: `/clients` - Parent page `/clients/[id]` - Child In the above, what's the most correct way to pass props to my child route? I need to pass a whole object, more than just the ID
What data are you trying to pass? Generally, on the server, you fetch data from a function.

You can leverage React's cache function on the server, which runs once per request. After that, subsequent requests pull the data from the cache.
/**
 * You can call this function in every place you want
 * the data, it will execute only once per server
 * request
 */ 
const getDataFromId = React.cache((id: string) => {
  ...
})
@Havana I’ll explore this in the morning. The day is fetched from a supabase query in the parent page, and the supplied data is a single record from that query
You can store the query in a cached function and create another cached function that calls the first function to retrieve the record
This approach requires a different mental model, as you don't pass data directly. The benefit, is that it allows for better composition