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Display all the tags (and their category) of a single recipe.

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Last updated: Feb 10, 2021
My project is a recipe-app in React and I want to display all the tags (and their category) of a single recipe.I just can’t figure out how to write the schema’s.
When I inspect the document of the recipe, I only get _key and _ref.
What did I do wrong?
Feb 10, 2021, 2:03 PM
Hi Pieter, this is correct - the 
_key
is to give each array item a unique identifier and the 
_ref
is the ID of the referenced document. To show these references in your React app, you will need to use the dereferencing operator 
->
to join them in your query.
For example, if you're using GROQ:

*[_type == "recipe"]{
  ...,
  thetags[]->{
    ...,
    category->
  }
}
Feb 10, 2021, 2:22 PM

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