tip #42: Most-Viewed Recipes widget

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+tip_number: 42
+date: 2026-07-23
+category: data
+status: pending
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+# Tip #42 — Most-Viewed Recipes widget
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+**Date:** 2026-07-23  
+**Category:** data  
+**Source:** MC-Survival Wiki Daily Tip (cron @ 18:00 MESZ)
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+## Most-Viewed Recipes widget
+
+Track recipe views in a write-only RecipeView { recipeId, userId?, createdAt } table, aggregate the top 10 over the last 30 days, and render them as a widget on the homepage. It solves the 'what is popular' discovery problem: new visitors have no signal about which recipes are most useful, and a 'Most-Viewed' list is the universal way to bootstrap that. The signal is engagement analytics — a top-10 list consistently outperforms a 'featured' or editor-picked list, because the data reflects what the community actually uses. Caching the aggregate for 1 hour via TanStack Query keeps the cost negligible, and writing the view events is a single insert per page load.
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+## Implementation tips
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+1. Track views in a RecipeView { recipeId, userId?, createdAt } table (write-only, no read overhead).
+2. Aggregate query: top 10 by count, last 30 days, exclude bots (no User-agent filter — keep simple).
+3. Cache the result for 1h with TanStack Query — re-aggregating on every page load is wasteful.