Fastest Way to Auto Generate Types for Typescript and Input validation

Short description

Writing types for API's especially giant JSON's are frustrating especially when it comes to input validation.

solution:

Just paste your json inside app.quicktype.io or it's vscode

Now you can paste that type into transform.tools/typescript-to-zod to generate the corresponding zod schema for input validation:

Note 🏅 For Practical step by step example check this 4min youtube video:

Video - Skip Writing types manually

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Comments

[Francis.B]

A schema from backend can speed up generating types

[DX Knight]

Yeah, but Most of the time schema for 3rd party api's are not available.

[Omar Karim]

Amature hour

[Yeuda By]

And what about nullable types? That's why I prefer to stick to the server-side scheme

[DX Knight]

It supports that too. bu what do you mean about server side scheme? can you please explain more