Typesafe API Protection with TypeScript

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Post by zwad3 » Mon, May 10, 2021, 7:48 PM UTC

Typesafe API Protection with TypeScript
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Re: Typesafe API Protection with TypeScript

#2

Post by zwad3 » Mon, May 10, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

Are there any other libraries that give good type-level guarantees?

Re: Typesafe API Protection with TypeScript

#3

Post by eyelidlessness » Tue, May 11, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

zwad3 wrote: post #2

Are there any other libraries that give good type-level guarantees?

There are tons. The ones I most often see mentioned are: zod, io-ts, runtypes. I’m at the design stage of building yet another, not because the existing ones aren’t great, but because I have a different set of requirements that none really meet:

- Documentation-driven: types are defined by JSON Schema

- Automatically generated documentation (which you get for free with this design)

- Flexible API: some people prefer the io-ts FP style, others prefer try/catch; some prefer callable types, others prefer reference access for primitives like io-ts.

- Interfaces designed to integrate with an ecosystem of tools with a similar documentation-driven philosophy, for example an HTTP API library which automatically generates OpenAPI docs (which I’m also working on).