import { db, userFollows, and, eq } from "@epicure/db";

/** True if `followerId` follows `followingId`. Used to gate "followers only"
 * visibility content — the same leftJoin+isNotNull idiom used elsewhere
 * (e.g. the for-you feed's private-author check) collapsed into a single
 * existence check for the single-recipe case. */
export async function isFollowing(followerId: string, followingId: string): Promise<boolean> {
  if (followerId === followingId) return true;
  const [row] = await db
    .select({ followerId: userFollows.followerId })
    .from(userFollows)
    .where(and(eq(userFollows.followerId, followerId), eq(userFollows.followingId, followingId)))
    .limit(1);
  return !!row;
}