In a lot of tutorials, I see tempid being used where it seems to serve no purpose. Here ’s an example from a friendly walkthrough: (d/transact conn [{:db/id (d/tempid :db.part/user) :owner/name "Bob" :owner/dogs [{:db/id (d/tempid :db.part/user) …

The use of d/tempid

marshall January 31, 2019, 4:45pm 5

That is also correct Dustin.

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