https://github.com/danprince/zhttp

🛡️ Typesafe HTTP endpoints with Express, Zod, and Static Path
https://github.com/danprince/zhttp

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🛡️ Typesafe HTTP endpoints with Express, Zod, and Static Path

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danprince/zhttp
• Owner: danprince
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-11-12T16:40:20.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-11-16T12:44:54.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-26T11:02:22.737Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: express, http, typescript, zod
• Language: TypeScript
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• Size: 87.9 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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• awesome-zod - `@danprince/zhttp` - A small library that brings zod, express, and static-path together to create type safe HTTP endpoints for clients and servers. (Projects Using Zod)

README

        
# zhttp

A small library that brings [`zod`][zod], [`express`][express], and [`static-path`][static-path] together to create type safe HTTP endpoints for clients and servers.

- [Reference](./docs)

  - [`endpoint`](./docs/modules/index.md#endpoint)

  - [`createRouter`](./docs/modules/express.md#createRouter)

  - [`fetchJson`](./docs/modules/fetch.md#fetchJson)

  - [`createClient`](./docs/modules/fetch.md#createClient)

## Getting Started

Install `zhttp` and its peer dependencies.

```sh

npm i @danprince/zhttp express @types/express zod static-path

```

- `static-path` requires `typescript@^4.1` (for [template literal types](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-4-1.html))

- `zod` requires you to run TypeScript in [strict mode](https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#strict).

## Example

Define your endpoints somewhere that both your client and server can import from.

```ts

// shared/endpoints.ts

import { endpoint } from "@danprince/zhttp";

import { z } from "zod";

import { path } from "path";

export let sendMessage = endpoint({

  // static-path definition

  path: path("/message/:to"),

  // "post" | "get" | "patch" | "put" | "delete" | "head"

  method: "post",

  // zod request body schema

  request: z.object({

    subject: z.string(),

    text: z.string(),

  }),

  // zod response body schema

  response: z.object({

    status: z.union([

      z.literal("success"),

      z.literal("pending"),

      z.literal("failure"),

    ]),

  }),

});

```

Then create corresponding server side route handlers.

```ts

// server/routes.ts

import { createRouter } from "@danprince/zhttp/express";

import { sendMessage } from "../shared/endpoints";

let router = createRouter();

router.use(sendMessage, async (req, res) => {

  // Type safe access from req.body

  let { subject, text } = req.body;

  // ...

  // Type safe res.body methods

  res.json({ status: "success" });

});

// router.routes() is an Express.Router

```

And finally, the client side.

```ts

// client/index.ts

import { fetchJson } from "@danprince/zhttp/fetch";

import { sendMessage } from "../shared/endpoints";

let res = await fetchJson(sendMessage, {

  params: { to: "howard" },

  body: {

    subject: "Hello!",

    text: "This is a message",

  },

});

// Type safe response

res.status

```

[express]: https://github.com/expressjs/express

[zod]: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod

[static-path]: https://github.com/garybernhardt/static-path