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Hello, This is a use case for tsafe, a utility that let you make assertions on types.

Zod is a solution for generating validators. I used to be reluctant to use it because I like to declare my types with the TypeScript syntax. I am not satisfied by getting the type inferred from the validator. The solution I found is to use tsafe, a utility that enables to make sure that two types are equals. With this solution you'll have to declare your type twice, once with the TypeScript syntax and once when declaring your zod parser but you are garentied that if you update your type and forget to update the corresponding zod parser your app won't build.

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Hi, Checkout tsafe. It enables to test types definition. Checkout this GIF in particular. Let's say for example that we have an objectFromEntries function and we want to test it typewise, we can do: ```typescript import { objectEntries } from "../myObjectFromEntries"; import { assert } from "tsafe";

`Object.fromEntries()`, `Object.entries()` and `Object.keys()` are barely usable when in a TypeScript codebase because their return type are very vague. [tsafe](https://github.com/garronej/tsafe) features three new utilities: [objectFromEntries()](https://docs.tsafe.dev/objectfromentries), [objectEntries()](https://docs.tsafe.dev/objectentries) and [objectKeys()](https://docs.tsafe.dev/objectkeys), functionally equivalent to their built-in counterpart but featuring much better return types.

Three GIFs to convince you that you need tsafe in your life:

ReScript is a fully typed language with an easy to understand JS like syntax, blazing fast compiler, that compiles to JavaScript. You can easily drop it into an existing project, and there is even a way to generate TypeScript types if you want to add it to a TypeScript project!

If you’re a front-end developer, you should checkout ReScript[1], supposedly a JS-oriented successor of ReasonML and developed by the ReasonML team.

[1] https://rescript-lang.org/

ReScript is "Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript from the Future". What that means is that ReScript has a lightning fast compiler, an easy to learn JS like syntax, strong static types, with amazing features like pattern matching and variant types. Until 2020 it was called "BuckleScript" and is closely related to ReasonML.

As another commenter has already suggested, ReasonML has a lot of what you described here.

However, modern JS-oriented toolchain for ReasonML is called ReScript and you can learn more here: https://rescript-lang.org/

ReScript (before BuckleScript) https://rescript-lang.org/ is a functional language that can also use OOP. Ideal for Javascript and Typescript projects, React and servers. It integrates perfectly with Javascript and Typescript code https://rescript-lang.org/docs/react/latest/introduction

Thank you!

We invited Gabriel because we think what he's building is pretty cool. It showcases so much about EdgeDB: its type system, data model, query language, composability, introspection, etc.

I'm not a ReScript user myself. What I know is that it's a functional programming language somewhat heavily inspired by OCaml. Their website goes into details [1]

[1] https://rescript-lang.org/

You might want to look into ReScript (https://rescript-lang.org/). It has strong static typing with type inference, and it is very fast.

This is because a “Tagged Union”, another word for TypeScript’s Discriminated Union, is a way to “tag which one is in use right now… we check the tag to see”. Just like when you’re shopping and check the tag of a piece of clothing to see what the price is, what size it is, or what material it’s made out of. Languages like ReScript compile many of their Unions (called Variants) to JavaScript Objects that have a tag property.

ReScript is "Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript from the Future". Let's take a look at how we can add it to an existing React project.

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