Recently I've started work on a next.js project (eCommerce with a chat & notifications) which uses a REST backend on an external API server, as well as the build-in API routes of Next.js. My idea is that I will use the backend server for stuff like WebSockets and cron-jobs. I then want the Next.js API routes to handle the authentication of users, fetching of data, and anything else that isn't limited by server less functions. In my mind, this sounds like a good idea, but I'd be glad to hear your opinion on it azar shagle . Any glaring issues etc, anything I might not have thought of with this approach?

I am new to graphQL and coming from the REST world. As I have done with REST, I tried to implement graphQL with the MySQL package but I’m not having any luck. Can this be done? Or do I need to use something like typeorm, prisma, sequelize, etc?

I came to JavaScript from a Python background and in Python, we have the count method of the list class, what it does is that, it takes a parameter and returns the number of times the parameter appears in the array. So how to do that in JavaScript?