Your API Is Type-Safe Only When Postgres Agrees

Type Safety Across the Stack: Make Postgres, Node.js, and React Agree

1. The false guarantee: TypeScript interfaces describe intent, not runtime data.
2. Postgres as the first contract: constraints, role checks, foreign keys, and migration tests.
3. A typed query boundary: map generated row types into narrow application DTOs without leaking table entities.
4. Node.js validation: validate inputs once, serialize outputs, and standardize errors.
5. React integration: shared response types, a typed fetch wrapper, and explicit state models.
6. CI enforcement: type checking, migration validation, contract tests, and no-any rules.

Code snippet ideas:

• A CHECK constraint for allowed roles
• A shared UserDTO declared with satisfies
• A boundary validator returning { ok, data } | { ok, error }
• A React query consuming the same DTO without as User

Finish with a migration checklist for one signup or authorization flow.

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