In cases where the client needs to stay separate, we have had a good experience with Orval[1] to generate a fully-typed @tanstack/query client from our OpenAPI spec.

[1] https://orval.dev/

- Vite/React/Tailwind for the frontend, with [Orval](https://orval.dev/) to generate FE definitions based on the API spec.

For non-API/SPA use-cases, it also has good HTML support, with built-in Jinja and HTMX integrations. The docs are great (https://docs.litestar.dev/latest/ - not quite Django-tier but that's the gold standard), however the reference application is a tad too complex imo (https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar-fullstack).

https://github.com/litestar-org/awesome-litestar has a list of useful extensions - highly recommend trying it out if you are starting a new Python web project.

In order to generate the API client, there are a few options available, but we are going to use (Orval)[https://orval.dev]. Orval is a CLI tool that generates API clients based on an OpenAPI specification. It supports TypeScript, JavaScript, Axios, React, Vue, Angular and Svelte and it's highly customizable.

I would use "reveal": "never" if I don't care about the results of the command, for example, I generate swagger types using orval.dev on every folder open, but I want this to run in background as it's not that important, so I use "reveal": "never" for it.

we started using (and now contributing to) https://orval.dev/ this year which both generates the mocks using MSW as well as the client-side networking code (React Query in our case). It removes so much boilerplate its amazing.

wrote up the basics of our workflow few weeks ago https://betaacid.co/blog/api-contracts

Personally, find gRPC-Web very attractive but the current state of TypeScript/JS code-gen is very confusing and lacking.

I would love something like https://orval.dev for gRPC-web. Have I missed something or is it just early to expect it?

I tried a few libraries but couldn't get them to work or would generate unappealing results. I believe I'm hitting this issue with my local experiments. https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web/issues/535

This is a Library I've used in the past, https://github.com/anymaniax/orval

If you have OpenAPI specs to work with you could also use Orval (https://orval.dev/) to generate a lot of code. We’re just starting to evaluate it at work but so far the team that’s trialing it is liking it.

On the frontend we can use the OpenAPI docs to generate the TS types for our data structures. Not only types but fetch functions as well as react-query hook can be generated as well. And in this blog post you can see how to do that with a library called Orval.

On this page, we’ll use a code generator called Orval.

Link: https://swr.vercel.app/

Now, it's time to consume our API. We'll use React for this tutorail, but feel free to use any other framework you prefer; the process remains the same. Additionally, we'll utilize SWR to fetch data from the API and TypeScript to ensure type safety.

'use client'; import FormPostUpdate from './components/FormPostUpdate/FormPostUpdate'; import FormDelete from '../app/components/FormDelete/FormDelete'; import { useFetch } from './hooks/useFetch'; import { useFetchSWR } from './hooks/useFetchSWR'; import Chart from './components/Chart/Chart'; export default function Home() { // Uncomment the code below and comment out the "useFetch" code if your want to use SWR for data fetching --> https://swr.vercel.app/docs/with-nextjs // const { data, error, isLoading } = useFetchSWR( // 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/anime/' // ); // Uses the Fetch API for data fetching const { data, error, isLoading } = useFetch( 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/anime/' ); if (error) return

An error has occurred.

; if (isLoading) return

Loading...

; console.log(data); return ( <>

POST: Add Anime Form

UPDATE: Update Anime Form

Select an ID from the list. You can change the data for Anime ID, Name and Release.

DELETE: Delete Anime Form

GET: Anime Data List

{data.map((anime) => (

• {anime.anime_name}

• ID: {anime.id}
• Anime ID: {anime.anime_id}
• Anime Release Year: {anime.anime_release}

))}

); }

There are libraries like SWR, RTK Query, and React Query that simplify the data fetching process on the client and take care of the state, error handling, caching, and re-fetching for you.

Then install the package SWR into your application with the following command:

SWR

I would suggest taking a look at SWR [0]. I think it strikes a very nice balance between using fetch and something more heavy-handed like React Query.

[0] https://swr.vercel.app/

Check out the official documentation for SWR here

SWR: A React Hooks library for remote data fetching. It supports features like caching, revalidation, error handling, prefetching, pagination, and support for SSG and SSR. Its bundle size is 10kb minified and 4.4kb gzipped

SWR Library