zodios VS Flutter

Zodios This is like tRPC but for REST APIs. Get an end-to-end typesafe developer experience in your Next.js apps

Zod is great. If you have an API that is also written in Typescript you can use zodios to make it type-safe from end to end.

@ecyrbe - Zodios | End-to-end typesafe REST API toolbox

Writing client APIs, that gives you autocompletion is time consuming. You allways endup writing the same kind of boilerplate code or have to use openapi code generators that are a pain to maintain. Zodios was created to make creating frontend (and optionally backend) API client a breeze. It's is an open source REST API toolbox with end-to-end typesafety. It allows you to create a REST API with a clean, intuitive and declarative syntax. It's best used with TypeScript, but it's also usable with pure JavaScript.

if you want to see it in practice, you can check some tests here for zodios library.

In the last article we have seen how to use zodios to declare custom REST APIs. As a reminder, Zodios is an open source HTTP client with type checking at runtime (zod validation) and also at compile time (typescript) without needing to write both types and validation schemas. You just need to write your API declaration once and you're done.

Zodios is a small open-source library that helps you declare your REST APIs in frontend applications thanks to Zod library.

[3]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/packages/flut...

Thanks - that link does not appear to be open access, anyways I don't think I've seen it. I'm familiar with Flutter at a high-level (Kevin Moore gave a great talk on it at Wasm I/O), and I think other than requiring users to work in Dart, it is probably one of the most powerful ways to do cross-platform UI today.

Worth noting that their original GPU backend was Skia, and now they are retooling around Flutter GPU (Impeller)[0], which is kind of designed similarly as an abstract rendering interface over platform-specific GPU APIs.

[0]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-GPU

If you are considering Electron/React then I would suggest adding Flutter to your list of technologies to consider. It uses Dart (a language similar to C#) and has a lot going for it… relatively quick to get up to speed with, fantastic developer experience (e.g., hot reload, great IDE support, good development tools) and very strong cross-platform support: it generates native iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux executables. Check it out: https://flutter.dev/

You can find the React Native documentation here and Flutter Documentation here.

[1]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/55092#issuecomment...

> There is actually a great issue thread on the Flutter GitHub that explains exactly why other solutions do not work correctly when compared to hooks [0]

Interesting. I assume you are referring to this comment in particular -> https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/51752#issuecomment... ?