Graphql message thread design - schema

Question

I’m creating a message thread schema, where users join the message thread, and fetch the messages for this particular thread.
Front end: Each message should show a little avatar & name
This means that I need to fetch the user who sent the message for every single message (this is the current implementation - running a db query to get the user for every single message)
A solution for this was to grab the users at the thread level. This would mean I’d have to match the message.user_id with the thread.thread_users['user_id']. Would it be weird if I did this on the front-end? I feel like I should be attaching the user for that particular message on the backend?
Is there a way I could pass down my thread.thread_users array into my messages connection?
Here is the current query I have:
thread(input...) {
id
// THIS HOLDS THE USERS WHO ARE IN THIS THREAD
threadUsers {
name
firstName
avatar {
original
thumbnail
medium
}
}
lastReadMessageId
messages {
edges {
cursor
node {
from {
firstName
lastName
}
messageContent
}
}
}
}
I guess the question is:
Is it possible to grab the thread_users array from inside the Message type? So I can then match the thread_user to the message.user_id
OR whether I should be matching the thread_users to the message.from_id on the front-end?
The database looks like this:
thread:
id
created_at
owner_id
messages:
from_id (the user who sent the message)
messageContent (the message content)
thread_users: (simply there to record what users are in which threads)
thread_id
user_id

Answer 1

What I ended up doing was letting the front-end handle this. I could've potentially used Dataloader with Graphql but there was no need.