Popular Libraries For Building Type-safe Web Application APIs

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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  • typebox

    Json Schema Type Builder with Static Type Resolution for TypeScript

  • The documentation can be found here.

  • zod

    TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

  • You can check out their documentation here.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • class-validator

    Decorator-based property validation for classes.

  • You can learn more from the documentation here.

  • Superstruct

    A simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript).

  • You can check out Superstruct documentation here.

  • tempo

    🥁 Don't miss a beat. Real-time, end-to-end typesafe APIs. (by betwixt-labs)

  • There are still a few more libraries in development. An example is Tempo by betwixt-labs.

  • ajv

    The fastest JSON schema Validator. Supports JSON Schema draft-04/06/07/2019-09/2020-12 and JSON Type Definition (RFC8927)

  • Ajv’s documentation is available here.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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