tsafe VS ts-ast-viewer

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.

tsafe.dev

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:

TypeScript AST Viewer

TypeScript AST Viewer - This viewer was useful in guessing the internal concepts and behavior of the Compiler API.

For those who are trying to use the typescript API to build file you can use this : https://ts-ast-viewer.com/

You can check ast-viewer Consider this example: typescript type Result = keyof HTMLDivElement Click in ast viewer on Result type, you will see something like that: Type keyof HTMLDivElement ... value:"align" value:"addEventListener" value:"removeEventListener" ... If you want to have more control over AST, you can check ts-ast-viewer repo

(As an aside, I used the ts-ast-viewer web app to generate this hierarchy. ts-ast-viewer is a project started by David Sherret that allows you to visualize and explore the AST for any TypeScript program. It was invaluable in helping me figure out the structures for this project.)