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Show HN: Simpler DTO modeling for TypeScript/NestJS projects
- rsinger86 3y agoI wasn't satisfied with zod* or class-validator* in NestJS projects, so I built this. It's meant to be a complete solution for data transfer objects: - A single construct for serialization and deserialization. zod and class-validator only handle parsing. - Syntax and style closer to JSON Schema and OpenAPI for aligned mental models. zod uses chained methods, class-validator uses decorators. - Straightforward way to integrate the HTTP context when parsing. Validation often depends on the requesting user. - Static types by default. To get static types with zod, you must make an extra infer call. To get static types with class-validator, you must make a redundant type declaration. *Both zod and class-validator are powerful and seem good for lots of use cases, just not my cup of tea for HTTP JSON APIs.