zod-sugar is just ‘zod backwards’ or “zod in reverse”

TLDR: This article introduces the zod-sugar library: https://github.com/samuelkarani/zod-sugar

When building my newly released ai-sugar library, I came across a use case where I needed to create a zod schema from a value -  instead of the usual case where you define your schema then parse your value with it. So I made I library for it and released it for the world on NPM.

Here's example of how it works:

import { createZod } from "zod-sugar";

const object = {
   foo: "bar",
   bar: 1,
   baz: [1, 2, 3],
   qux: { foo: "bar" },
}
const schema = createZod(object);
// schema is a ZodObject
const result = schema.safeParse(object);
// result.success === true

It works with common javascript values: null, undefined, boolean, number, bigint, string, symbol, array, object:

createZod(null) // ZodNull

createZod(undefined) // ZodUndefined

createZod(1) // ZodNumber

createZod("foo") // ZodString

createZod(false) // ZodBoolean

createZod(Symbol("foo")) // ZodSymbol

createZod(BigInt(1)) // ZodBigInt

createZod([1, 2, 3]) // ZodArray

createZod({ foo: "bar", baz: 1 }) // ZodObject

createZod({
 string: "bar",
 number: 1,
 array: [1, 2, 3],
 bigint: BigInt(9007199254740991),
 object: {
    number: 0,
    boolean: false,
    object: {
       string: "bar",
       null: null,
       [Symbol("foo")]: "bar",
    },
    array: ["1", "2", "3"],
 },
undefined: undefined,
}) // ZodObject

To install it simply:

npm install zod-sugar
yarn add zod-sugar
pnpm install zod-sugar

Links
AI Sugar is the related library where these functions are used internally to work with AI APIs: https://github.com/samuelkarani/ai-sugar
Github link: https://github.com/samuelkarani/zod-sugar
NPM link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-sugar