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I have a block that references a custom post type named faq that has a taxonomy named faq_group. This block has one attribute and makes multiple getEntityRecords calls. One of the calls has an argument that depends on the previous one:

The attribute:

// the group attribute stores the slug of the selected faq_group slug from a SelectControl component
attributes: {
    group: {
        type: 'string',
        default: '',
    },
}

The calls:

// Get all terms from the faq_group taxonomy to fill a SelectControl component (name and slug)
const groups = useSelect( ( select ) =>
    select( 'core' ).getEntityRecords( 'taxonomy', 'faq_group', { per_page: -1, orderby: 'name', order: 'asc', _fields: 'id,name,slug' } ),
    []
);

// Get the term object with the same slug as the group attribute
const selectedGroup = useSelect( ( select ) =>
    select( 'core' ).getEntityRecords( 'taxonomy', 'faq_group', { per_page: -1, orderby: 'name', order: 'asc', _fields: 'id,name,slug' } )?.find( ( term ) => term.slug === attributes.group ),
    [ attributes.group ]
);

// Get posts from the faq custom post type with a faq_group term with id = selectedGroup.id
const faqs = useSelect( ( select ) =>
    select( 'core' ).getEntityRecords( 'postType', 'faq', { faq_group: [ selectedGroup?.id ] } ),
    [ selectedGroup?.id ]
);

My question is, can this be simplified somehow? Can the multiple calls be combined inside just one useSelect selector?

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Can the multiple calls be combined inside just one useSelect selector?

Yes, and here's an example where my useSelect() returns an object that I unpack using the destructuring assignment (e.g. const { a, b } = myFunc() where myFunc() returns { a: 'foo', b: 123 }):

const { groups, selectedGroup, faqs } = useSelect( ( select ) => {
    const { getEntityRecords } = select( 'core' );

    // The args are identical for both "groups" and selectedGroup, so I put them in a constant.
    const groupsArgs = { per_page: -1, orderby: 'name', order: 'asc', _fields: 'id,name,slug' };

    const selectedGroup = getEntityRecords( 'taxonomy', 'faq_group', groupsArgs )?.find(
        ( term ) => term.slug === attributes.group
    );

    return {
        groups: getEntityRecords( 'taxonomy', 'faq_group', groupsArgs ),
        faqs: getEntityRecords( 'postType', 'faq', { faq_group: [ selectedGroup?.id ] } ),
        selectedGroup,
    };
}, [ attributes.group ] );

If you do not actually need to access the selectedGroup from outside the useSelect() callback, then you can omit selectedGroup from the list, i.e. use just const { groups, faqs } = useSelect( ... ), and then remove the selectedGroup, (the third line) from the return value.

And actually, instead of calling getEntityRecords() twice with the same args, you could call it just once:

const { groups, selectedGroup, faqs } = useSelect( ( select ) => {
    const { getEntityRecords } = select( 'core' );

    const groupsArgs = { per_page: -1, orderby: 'name', order: 'asc', _fields: 'id,name,slug' };
    const groups = getEntityRecords( 'taxonomy', 'faq_group', groupsArgs );

    const selectedGroup = groups?.find( ( term ) => term.slug === attributes.group );

    return {
        groups,
        selectedGroup,
        faqs: getEntityRecords( 'postType', 'faq', { faq_group: [ selectedGroup?.id ] } ),
    };
}, [ attributes.group ] );

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