Discussion on: Decoding JSON with Typescript

[Joan Llenas Masó]

Never used Joi before but it looks much more powerful (and heavy).
This library is just a few bytes, although it has all the basic pieces you need to build more Joi-ish stuff (I guess).
Something you can do with ts.data.json that I don't see in the Joi docs is mapping over a decoded value. For instance:

type User = {
    id: number,
    name: string,
    dateOfBirth: Date
}

JsonDecoder.object<User>(
    {
        id: JsonDecoder.number,
        name: JsonDecoder.string,
        dateOfBirth: JsonDecoder.string.map(stringDate => new Date(stringDate)),
    },
    'User'
);

Very useful.

Thanks for pointing that out Thijs.
Cheers!

[Thijs Koerselman]

Mapping seems useful indeed :)

I use Joi on the server so size is not an issue there. For the browser I use yup. Similar API but much smaller footprint.

[Joan Llenas Masó]

Interesting! smaller footprint but powerful too.
I might add an alternatives section in the ts.data.json docs.
Thanks!