class-validator VS zod

You can learn more from the documentation here.

This is the request body when creating a new task. The IsString decorator provided by class-validator rejects all types other than strings, including undefined or null. The task name value object does not consider the possibility of values other than strings.

In this class, we are using the famous class-validator to decorate our request parameters. This way it is more clear how we are going to use our request object and everything.

We add validation using https://github.com/typestack/class-validator.

I will make sure we get this documented.

Also OP can check out class-transformer + class-validator if he want to properly instantiate objects and validate them with precise and verbose output of potential format errors. OP can even go the god tier way by setting up a custom RxJS operator that does that for him easily.

Start by installing the class-transformer and class-validator packages for dto validation (see more in the docs), sharp for image optimization, and the S3 client packages.

The description of the request body model in NestJS is similar to the description of Ditsmod models, but NestJS uses decorators provided by the utility class-validator. In NestJS, it is customary to name the request body model with the ending *Dto (this is an abbreviation of Data transfer object):

You could use Zod or Superstruct to validate the types of values, or use typestack/class-validator if it makes sense.

Also, title of before article was I made 1,000x faster TypeScript validator library, but today's benchmark is showing that typescript-json is maximum 6,500x times faster. It's just because I added a new library class-validator in the benchmark and it is much slower than previous zod. Of course, I've continuously tuned the performance, but it just improved the performance about 2x times only.

Zod is a TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library. It helps create schemas for any data type and is very developer-friendly. Zod has the functional approach of "parse, don't validate." It supports coercion in all primitive types.

Link: https://zod.dev/

You can check out their documentation here.

You can learn more about Zod on their website here.

In JS, it's a good idea anyway to use some JSON parsing library instead of JSON.parse.

With Zod, you can use z.bigint() parser. If you take the "parse any JSON" snippet https://zod.dev/?id=json-type and change z.number() to z.bigint(), it should do what you are looking for.

We will validate our input using client-side zod. Zod handles TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference. This means that it will not only validate your fields, it will also set types on validated fields.

A word of warning: while discriminated unions are very powerful, there's an ongoing discussion on whether discriminated unions should be deprecated and replaced with a different API.

I was first introduced to Zod by Adam Bobrow - a colleague of mine and a dear friend. Adam was sick and tired from JavaScript's brittleness, and about two years ago he started migrating our code base to TypeScript. But that wasn't enough for him. He kept complaining: "What good are my types, if some other service decides to send me bad data and breaks my code?". That's when he discovered Zod.

It is (or should be) common practice to parse/validate any external data you depend on. You should be doing this for Javascript too. I find that the library https://zod.dev/ is quite helpful for this