Performance of fetching pointers

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Is there any way to perform queries on pointers more performant. Lets say we have a collection called blog posts which references another by pointer collection called categories, in order to retrieve all the references i must do a for loop over books and then perform away on each books reference to categories which can be quite slow depending on the number of books I have. for example


... query for books  

for (let index = 0; index < books.length; index++) {
    const book = books[index];
    let cat = book.get('category')
        cat = await cat.fetch(masterKey)
        ... do stuff with category before reassigning back to book object 
    let refactorBook = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(book))                
        refactorBook = { ...refactorBook, category }
        returnBooks.push(refactorBook)
}
2

Best not to use await in a loop, use Promise.all instead.

You can also use include or matchesQuery