Zod Makes TypeScript Even Better

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Zod is amazing. It is not only an incredible validation library, but the direct interactions it has with TypeScript make it event better. Not having to define my types twice is a game changer and the simple yet powerful API of Zod is so nice. In this video I talk about what Zod is, show examples of how to use Zod, and talk about why it is so amazing.
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⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - What Is ZOD?
05:12 - ZOD Demo
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@hunterbertoson156 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a full tutorial on Zod! Also, an overview on your thoughts of the T3 stack.

@arno.claude Жыл бұрын

I second this

@zapfska7390 Жыл бұрын

I third the t3 stack

@athulgeorge6744 Жыл бұрын

I 4th the T3 stack

@nisargbhatt300 Жыл бұрын

I 6th this with Async validation with Zod (like unique username).

@alexchang6367 Жыл бұрын

i 7th love to see this

@papadavis47 Жыл бұрын

Well done, Kyle. I have heard of zod, but I have not used it yet. I appreciate this concise video of what it is. A full tutorial with a React Typescript project would be great. Thanks for your work!

@remccs16 Жыл бұрын

This is great, thank you Kyle! I would most certainly watch a full tutorial on Zod!

@MrSwingbop Жыл бұрын

Full Tutorial is always welcome :D Thanks for all the precious tips!

@samuelwittlinger7790 Жыл бұрын

Looks pretty good, personally I created a validator based on Joi which returns the object you are validating typecasted as the object type your validation schema is describing, which is a little more convenient than having to call infer every time.

@codeNameMoose907 Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I never heard of Zod! But more importantly... hope you feel much better soon Kyle! Your followers will be here waiting; we won't ever leave you. Thanks for everything you do! Sending you and yours super healthy and happy healing vibes, Buddy! 😊

@arunavabanerjee6103 Жыл бұрын

Hey Kyle, thanks for the video, zod seems super cool and I'd really like if could make a tutorial on it

@abdirahmann Жыл бұрын

OMG OMG OMG OMG please do a full tutorial on this one, this is going to simplify my data validation logic on my node server, i also just migrated everything to ts yesterday, how awesome, also, i checked out express-validator and i didn't like how it did validation using middlewares and stuff soo this is a GOD send. Thanks GOD and thanks to you too for letting us know. love ya :)

@boian-inavov Жыл бұрын

I love how Zod has picked up popularity lately. I’ve been using it it for a while and it’s been amazing! You just forget about the cumbersome validation part and focus on building your business logic. Also the way it’ll give you a ready made object in the way you’d been expecting it is just god sent! Glad that more people are covering it 👏

@BinaryReader Жыл бұрын

Zod is no different to Yup, in fact, Zod is basically a clone of Yup with better static typing. Also, Zod is incredibly slow. Compare it to industry standard validators and it's like 300x slower to validate anything. You shouldn't be using Zod on the server side (it's that bad) The hype around Zod is real, but that doesn't make it good. It's just social media marketing and online influencers pushing it.

@fotoflo Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this great video! Wanted to note that Zod also offers a little bit of API around error messages as well.

@arryaz051 Жыл бұрын

Great tool, I use it a lot in NodeJS HTTP APIs to validate requests to the server and get the TypeScript type too.

@akashsinha5148 Жыл бұрын

That would be wonderful 👍 please do a full tutorial. As your tutorials are small and feature packed.

@sohanbafna2282 Жыл бұрын

I am using NestJs heavily for most of my codebase I define DTO's and nest js frameworks helps me to validate each of objects/types for request I make. In that case i would not need this Before that we have been using JSON schema validators where we define schema and validate the DTO's But now zod is permutation and combination of all - like even loash functions are wrapped, this is super useful and must give a try Thanks for quick overview

@souvlaki42 Жыл бұрын

Very cool library. I really like the idea of a tutorial about it.

@johnjohn7023 Жыл бұрын

i was waiting for this. thank you so much!!! We want full tutorial!

@anatolydyatlov963 Жыл бұрын

Yep, I've been using it for the past few months and it's a must-have for schemaless dbs.

@ElliottTheUnicorn 8 ай бұрын

thanks for the brief explanation. exactly what i was looking for 👍

@jayliu5432 Жыл бұрын

Showing the form use case for Zod was super helpful. I finally get it!

@tsioryfitiavanaanhykrishna6992 Жыл бұрын

Aw longtime no see, I'm glad that u reach 1M sub ! Thanks for all your tutorials and keep up the good works !

@LasgCe Жыл бұрын

I remember watching the video 2 days ago and thinking, why would I ever need this .. Well, today I needed to create a very complex form validation and I gotta say, Zod is doing a great job so far

@oleksandrluchytskyi6867 Жыл бұрын

Yes, please a video with most common recipes will be good to have 🤩

@vsabhishek1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, you are awesome👌 in explaining new concepts👏👏. Yes i would love to see you cover a full tutorial on zod using typescript.👍👍

@mind_of_a_darkhorse Жыл бұрын

I am intrigued! So, please make a tutorial on this game-changing way of doing things!

@eschwinvanloon7826 Жыл бұрын

Hey Kyle, Thank you for this video, i'd love to see a full tutorial on Zod!

@johnychinese Жыл бұрын

Yep Kyle, We want a full tutorial, I love how you simplify these things but still show how valuable and powerful they are

@blockstarter4745 Жыл бұрын

Always great content chief (Y) . . . Keep it up

@nmanikiran Жыл бұрын

would love to see a full tutorial on Zod! And also please compare with Joi, ajv, zod

@BinaryReader Жыл бұрын

Comparing Zod to Ajv would be embarrassing....for Zod >_>

@anthonyribeiro3918 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see full tutorial too, your didatics is very good!

@sujoydutta920 Жыл бұрын

That would be really great to have a tutorial on Zod

@tonyg_nerd Жыл бұрын

Kyle, thanks for this. I'm tooling up for projects with React, MUI, Redux, and have been looking into Formik which validates (primarily) with Yup. I'm not loving the Formik/Yup side, so it'll be nice to give Zod a spin, especially since it's TS-first, as am I. As someone else noted, my primary questions will be about custom rules, field/field comparisons, and async/sync server validations. Zod MUST perform here or I need to go with an established standard.

@tonyg_nerd Жыл бұрын

Looks like Zod is the winner with Hook Forms.

@ReconNite Жыл бұрын

The problem I ran into with zod was that, not only was it super slow compared to other validators it was also very limiting as to what could be checked, or what could be coerced from one value to another. Although I still use it on some projects, I started to move over to superstruct for my more recent projects as it allows me to define custom refinements/coercions/types with little trouble. Of course this means that you lose the "built-in" or modular aspect of zod, superstruct makes it a lot easier for targeted validation.

@BinaryReader Жыл бұрын

Try TypeBox, it's based on industry standards and it's also 300x faster than Zod.

@arian5126 Жыл бұрын

Great, exactly what I needed in the right time for a React project but for someone who's worked with Angular FormBuilder (which is a built-in module), you'd know how Angular is underrated.

@AmanSingh-px5if Жыл бұрын

and exactly why react is so popular, not every project will need all the built in modules or even of the type that are baked in.

@arian5126 Жыл бұрын

@@AmanSingh-px5if you don't have to use all built-in modules. The compiler removes unused modules from the bundle.

@adisonmasih Жыл бұрын

We really need a full tutorial! 🔥

@RandomActsOfWil Жыл бұрын

FULL TUTORIAL PLEASE!!!!! You are awesome!!!!

@nomadshiba Жыл бұрын

cool, i had made something similar years ago it was returning correct type after parse also but this is more solid and better than my ancient prototype thingy of course defiantly will use it!

@aram5642 Жыл бұрын

Zod in a plain vanilla JS/TS project is definitely a win. No question about it. Would be interesting so see a video on how it integrates with framework like Angular and its built-in form validators.

@MultiPoiu Жыл бұрын

Erf, i'm sticking to AJV when doing api-first design and reusable component, because jsonSchema, even if it is a bit more tedious, it is reusable in all language, and can serve as first class API doc with swagger (jsonSchema are almost 100% compatible to swagger) And DTO with annotation are more readable for other stuff, I then use class-validator

@nikhilverma4976 Жыл бұрын

Makes sense. JSON portability FTW

@mikehill1114 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you said "comments below." I'm a full stack developer, but it wasn't until just now that I figured out where the KZfaq comments were located ;)

@FamilyGuyVids11 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff. ill try it out

@shivamsahil3660 Жыл бұрын

Hmm this seems more of a form validation library rather than improvement on typescript. Thanks a lot Kyle ❤️

@martinpenev6750 Жыл бұрын

Hi Kyle Thx for showing us Zod, I really think it’s supercool! I was wondering: Which validation library have you been using before Zod?

@jtnovellis Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I’d love to watch the full tutorial!

@Jorgepr787 Жыл бұрын

Great intro to zod thanks!

@focusroom_ Жыл бұрын

Great! want to learn more about this

@twd2 Жыл бұрын

thanks ,Kyle a full tutorial would be greate 😍

@jawadshaikh1745 Жыл бұрын

definitely would love to have a full tut on Zod

@morticie333 Жыл бұрын

Great, please do the complex tutorial! I am looking forward! :)

@allirey6196 Жыл бұрын

it's very interesting not just for frontend form validation but also for backend API validation

@ColinRichardson Жыл бұрын

The problem I found with Zod is the transforms. It starts to blur the edges between validating and parsing. But my manager found a good library (I don't remember it's name for the top of my head) which uses the TS types and makes it a type validator at compile time, rather than runtime, using vite plugins. It seems like a better suit for us as we already have the types setup, rather than using Zod to Infer the types.

@hienluong9273 Жыл бұрын

can you share what library you are using ?

@DillonRedding Жыл бұрын

Super cool! This is like Joi, but specifically for TypeScript.

@nickurchin9579 Жыл бұрын

At 1:25 ish I paused to read that Introduction off their site and once I read "The goal is to eliminate duplicative type declarations." - it clicked. As I'm on the tail end of the "learning" process, I hate getting comfortable with something (typescript in this case) only for a new/hot library to come along and improve it, because it also means I have yet another damn thing to learn before I feel ready to apply. However, I've actually recently run into that exact issue where I've had to declare the same type in two different places and it just felt gross, but I couldn't see a way around it; now we have Zod and that's awesome.

@nickurchin9579 Жыл бұрын

@@kishirisu1268 Shhhh, Typescript can hear you. You're real too, Typescript, we promise (don't worry, it won't resolve).

@dhaivathlal4870 Жыл бұрын

I'm about to do my first typescript form validation without any framework hence no framework provided form validation methods. This video just dropped right on time

@pomprocks Жыл бұрын

You should show it with the same validation messages that your if/else validation has. Often certain messages need to be used, not just whatever messages your validation library produces.

@nomiscph Жыл бұрын

In angular they have forms with full typescript support 🎉 for everyone working with angular

@jimchapman4579 Жыл бұрын

Yes! Full tutorial please.

@bouwensr Жыл бұрын

Love a full tutorial especially with a form generated out of json data and field required based on a ‘complete switch’

@josecongo9453 Жыл бұрын

Please do a full Tuturial. I have a question, with zod do I still need create Interface(TS) for static checking? How can I reuse zod in multiple component(I thinking i react component). Thank you

@rand0mtv660 Жыл бұрын

Yeah Zod is cool, but it also kinda depends what you are doing IMO. If you use Zod to validate endpoints that you create with tRPC, then it seems to be great. If you use it for validating forms on frontend with react-hook-form, then yup might just be slightly better. That's at least from my personal experience comparing these two. yup also has a nice Typescript experience and the infer type from schema like the z.infer you shown here. Zod isn't the first schema validation library to utilize Typescript, but it seems people act like it is :)

@mrcookie97 Жыл бұрын

It can check if integer too that's quite nice

@0xSLN Жыл бұрын

great! full tutorial plz!!

@edwardalmanzar8382 Жыл бұрын

Full tutorial 🙌

@daminipandey6490 Жыл бұрын

Hey. I'm just curious to know if it's possible to chain multiple regex expressions for the same input field and display different error messages .

@daminipandey6490 Жыл бұрын

@@victor_productions Siuuuuuuuuu

Жыл бұрын

Magical video.

@oswaldosoto4500 Жыл бұрын

would be nice have a zod tutorial for advanced user/passwords forms.

@_the_one_1 Жыл бұрын

You must be kidding! I was just trying to get deep with Zod and you posted a video! Great timing, thanks. I believe "everyone" would LOVE a full tutorial about Zod and why not... typing APIs both with static typing and validating the actual response

@NewHellz- Жыл бұрын

hey there, may i ask something ?? Is there possible if to create progress bar, with numered inside can change automatically with the date i want to??

@avneet12284 Жыл бұрын

Cool. Full tutorial would be great

@naezy316 Жыл бұрын

Waiting for the full tutorial !!!

@avinashmahananda8717 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see a full zod tutorial.

@Zeee530 Жыл бұрын

In my previous project I used typescript, formik and yup for validation but Zod looks far more easier and manageable, I'll appreciate a full tutorial

@danhphamthanh197 Жыл бұрын

I don't think so, Formik still make the form validate way more robust and manageble. Or maybe we can try Formik + Zod :D

@SpaceGravy 8 ай бұрын

A comparison with yup would be appreciated!

@nabinsaud4688 Жыл бұрын

Yes Bring the zod validation video

@zhenglaowang8489 Жыл бұрын

I can't get over how clean your hair looks.

@brunocapitelli7754 8 ай бұрын

Awesome vid! Even though Zod is awesome and pragmatical for type validation the only reason I still wouldn't add it to a backend project is that it's not an ORM as well, so using TypeORM is more of a gain even if the whole schema validation is more verbose. For frontend projects I feel like using it is not that worth it since I use Angular and things like FormBuilder along with classes/interfaces pretty much do the job for a frontend scope, leaving the hard validations for the backend as it should be. I can't help but feel like Zod has gained much popularity solely due to React and the culture of recurring to a lot of third-partys for specific objectives.

@paolocatalano2885 Жыл бұрын

Hey Kyle! Please make a full tutorial of Zod including also Zorm (React form with Zod). Thank you!

@diegomiyt Жыл бұрын

Can i use zod to 'autommaper' ( like automapper from c# ) for convert one type to another? (Ex: IUserResponse from api to IUserState to use in React )

@genc_emekli Жыл бұрын

Hello. please do a full tutorial. I have already started to use zod. Many thanks.

@j946atFIVEFOUR88AA Жыл бұрын

Would be cool to see you have a talk with Theo and his T3 stack 🙂

@Dwafford01 Жыл бұрын

I would also love to see a full tutorial on it

@vizunaldth Жыл бұрын

Kyle - full tut like you did on prisma would be nice to watch

@chidimbamalu3490 Жыл бұрын

Good Video. Make a video on Zod like you did on Prisma

@SoldierXfreedom Жыл бұрын

An essential for any API

@DiegoBM Жыл бұрын

Is it ok to gather then, that this would be runtime TypeScript that automatically generates the compile time types for you?

@MrFelipefsf Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kyle, I would like to watch a tutorial with NodeJs data validation

@paulo6069 Жыл бұрын

Seems quite useful, thanks for sharing. Although I do think you are abusing the ?. operator in your demo (why would your HTML elements be undefined?), making it more difficult to read.

@MDFAYIZTP Жыл бұрын

Yup vs Zod , add a comparison in next video ❤ we are waiting

@sumanbyravi8227 Жыл бұрын

Hey Kyle 🔥

@rishiraj2548 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@dephc0n1 Жыл бұрын

Do you suggest using a query selector on MUI Typography? I see you're using it here.

@saimrgondal2360 2 ай бұрын

I'd like a video comparing this with other form validation libs such as Joi. I;ve used Joi in the past and Im really curious to see if zod offers better usability. Thanks. Love your videos.