What's the proper way to access database/api?

Let's say I want to fetch products from the database.

that's the old way:

import express from "express";
import markoPlugin from "@marko/express";
import template from "./template.marko";

const app = express();
app.use(markoPlugin()); // Enables `res.marko(template, input)`

app.get("/", function (req, res) {
  const products = req.db.find(...)

  res.marko(template, {
    products
  });
});

app.listen(8080);

What's the proper way to do the same in marko/run?

I tried something like this in +handler.js

export const GET: MarkoRun.Handler = ({ request, platform }, next) => {
    platform.response.locals = {
        data: Math.random()
    }

    next()
};

and then in +page.marko
<h1>${$global.platform.response.locals.data}</h1>
but i'm not sure it's the best way.

Start with the +handler.js example and the +page.marko access shown in the issue, then trace Marko Run's request and data-loading entry points. Done means identifying and documenting the supported way to fetch database or API data for a page, including how the handler's result is consumed.