typebox VS ts-json-schema-generator

The documentation can be found here.

So far I like the commonly used approach in the Typescript community best:

1. Create your Schema using https://zod.dev or https://github.com/sinclairzx81/typebox

2. Generate your Types from the schema. It's very simple to create partial or composite types, e.g. UpdateModel, InsertModels, Arrays of them, etc.

3. Most modern Frameworks have first class support for validation, like is a great example Fastify (with typebox). Just reuse your schema definition.

That is very easy, obvious and effective.

There's a ton of schema validators out there and most devs have their personal favorite. Mine was zod and is now typebox + ajv.

If you're willing to document your API with an OpenAPI schema, then it should be possible to generate TypeScript types based on the OpenAPI schema with something like openapi-typescript. Also, Typebox can generate JSON schemas, maybe it can be used to generate something that the front-end can also use?

Well, I do provide extensibility for those bullet points you've listed to varying degrees (both schema and type representation), as well as offering a reference implementation for expressing a entirely different schema specification under the type system (specifically RFC8927 / JSON Type Definition). Reference implementation here. As for JSDoc, It's supported in code hints.

In setting out to build this service, we wanted to use gRPC for its APIs. We’ve been reaching for REST when building APIs so far, primarily out of necessity, i.e., our public APIs needed auto-generated client SDKs and docs for developers working with them. We built those APIs with Fastify and Typebox but felt burned by a code-first approach to generating an OpenAPI spec. I’ll spare you the details and save that experience/learning for another article. Suffice it to say we love gRPC’s schema-first approach. This blog post summarizes our feelings well

This looks interesting but I already have TypeScript types for my APIs so I developed https://github.com/vega/ts-json-schema-generator which lets me generate JSON schema from the sources directly. Yes, it does have some oddities because the two languages have slightly different feature sets but it’s been working well for us for a few years. If I didn’t have TypeScript or a smaller API surface I’d be okay with typing again I would look at TypeSpec though. It definitely beats writing JSON schema by hand.

3. Generate JSON schemas with the ts-json-schema-generator package

We user ts-json-schema-generator to create the schemas directly from TS types.

I’ve been using this one: https://github.com/vega/ts-json-schema-generator most recently and it’s been great

Maybe this vscode extension can work for you. It can turn Json samples into structs. this can help you turn typescript to Json. Maybe you can automate it.

Now we have to parse the JSON containing our scene and validate that this JSON is valid according to what we expect. For that we are going to use the JSON Schema along with ts-json-schema-generator to generate said schema automatically and ajv to validate JSON against the generated schema.

If the output format isn’t important you could use ts-json-schema-generator - it doesn’t work with everything but it’s pretty good at outputting a json schema structure for interfaces and types.

https://github.com/grantila/typeconv/ https://github.com/airtasker/spot https://github.com/vega/ts-json-schema-generator

Most people do not write JSON Schema by hand. Typescript is one of the popular tools: https://github.com/vega/ts-json-schema-generator