https://github.com/jsonbored/zodkit

Static analysis and development tools for Zod schemas - validate files, generate mock data, and catch type safety issues before runtime.
https://github.com/jsonbored/zodkit

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Static analysis and development tools for Zod schemas - validate files, generate mock data, and catch type safety issues before runtime.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jsonbored/zodkit
• Owner: JSONbored
• License: mit
• Created: 2025-09-27T21:48:45.000Z (7 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-12-02T21:55:40.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-05T22:00:05.409Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: base, cli-tool, developer-tools, linting, nextjs, nodejs, open-source, react, schema, schema-validation, static-analysis, type-safety, typescript, walletconnect, zod, zod-validation, zod-validators, zodkit
• Language: TypeScript
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• Forks: 1
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# ZodKit ⚡

> **The Complete Zod Schema Toolkit - Production-Ready v0.2.1-beta**

A comprehensive, production-grade CLI for Zod schema development - combining static analysis, code generation, testing, and AI-powered assistance in a unified terminal interface.

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## ✨ What's New in v0.2.1-beta

### 🔒 **Enterprise-Grade Security**

- ✅ **100% CodeQL Issues Resolved** - All security vulnerabilities fixed

- ✅ **Cryptographic ID Generation** - crypto.randomBytes() for session/user IDs

- ✅ **File System Safety** - Atomic operations eliminate race conditions

- ✅ **Null Safety** - Comprehensive optional chaining prevents crashes

- ✅ **String Sanitization** - Complete pattern replacement (no partial matches)

- ✅ **Zero npm Vulnerabilities** - All dependencies secure and up-to-date

### 🎯 **Powerful CLI Features**

- ✅ **Interactive Schema Builder** - Create schemas with step-by-step prompts and 7 templates

- ✅ **Smart Linting** - 6 built-in rules detect anti-patterns and best practices

- ✅ **Bundle Analysis** - Identify schema overhead and get optimization tips

- ✅ **TypeScript → Zod** - Automatic conversion with pattern detection

- ✅ **AI Integration** - Schema explanations and MCP server support

- ✅ **Multi-Format Docs** - Generate Markdown, HTML, JSON Schema, OpenAPI

### ⚡ **Performance & Developer Experience**

- **Lazy Loading**: Commands load on-demand → faster startup

- **Tree-Shaking**: 28.8% dead code elimination

- **25 Commands**: Full CLI toolkit (lint, stats, create, scaffold, test, docs, etc.)

- **Production Build**: 889KB CLI, 2.1MB total

- **Watch Mode**: Real-time validation as you code

- **Zero Config**: Works out-of-the-box with sensible defaults

## 🚀 Quick Start

```bash

# Install globally

npm install -g zodkit

# Initialize a new project

zodkit init

# Analyze your existing schemas

zodkit check

# Lint schemas for best practices

zodkit lint

# Generate statistics and bundle impact

zodkit stats

# Create schemas interactively

zodkit create

# Generate Zod from TypeScript

zodkit scaffold src/types.ts

# Test your schemas

zodkit test

```

> **Need help?** See [TROUBLESHOOTING.md](TROUBLESHOOTING.md) for common issues and solutions.

## 🎯 Key Features

### ✅ Production-Ready Features

#### 📊 **Analysis & Validation**

- **analyze** - Unified 4-in-1 analysis (check/hint/fix/full modes)

  - AST-based schema analysis with ts-morph

  - Rule engine with 4 built-in rules

  - Safe auto-fix capability

  - Progressive loading for large codebases

- **check** - Fast schema validation with minimal output

- **fix** - Auto-fix schema issues (safe/unsafe modes)

#### 🏗️ **Code Generation**

- **create** - Interactive schema builder with step-by-step prompts

  - 15+ field types (string, number, email, URL, UUID, date, array, object, enum, etc.)

  - 7 predefined templates (user, product, post, comment, address, apiResponse, pagination)

  - Field-specific validation rules (min/max, regex, custom refinements)

  - Optional/nullable field support

  - **Real-time validation preview** - See errors and warnings as you build

  - **Live code preview** - Generated code updates after each field

  - **Production-grade validation** - Reserved keyword detection, duplicate checking, security checks

  - Automatic TypeScript type inference

- **scaffold** - Generate Zod schemas from TypeScript with smart pattern detection

  - Detects emails, URLs, UUIDs, dates, ports, phones automatically

  - Preserves JSDoc comments

  - Handles complex generics

- **generate** - Multi-source schema generation with AI-powered pattern detection

  - **JSON**: Analyzes JSON data and generates Zod schemas with automatic pattern detection

  - **API**: Inspects REST API endpoints and generates schemas from responses

  - **Database**: Schema introspection (experimental - requires database drivers)

  - Detects email, URL, UUID, date, phone patterns automatically

  - Generates both Zod schemas and TypeScript types

- **mock** - Generate realistic mock data with faker.js

  - 20+ pattern-based generators

  - Multiple output formats (JSON, CSV, SQL, TypeScript)

  - Seed support for reproducible data

- **docs** - Multi-format documentation generation

  - Markdown (with TOC and categories)

  - HTML (with search)

  - JSON Schema (Zod v4 native)

  - OpenAPI 3.1 specification

#### 🔄 **Schema Operations**

- **migrate describe-to-meta** - Automated .describe() → .meta() migration

  - Intelligent metadata inference (title, category, tags)

  - Interactive mode with enhancement prompts

  - Dry-run support

- **diff** - Compare schema versions and detect breaking changes

  - Deep schema comparison with breaking change detection

  - Multiple output formats (text, JSON, Markdown, HTML)

  - Automatic migration guide generation

  - 7 types of breaking changes detected

- **sync** - Synchronize schemas with databases and APIs

#### 🧪 **Testing & Quality**

- **test** - Comprehensive schema testing

  - Fuzzing with configurable iterations

  - Property-based testing

  - Performance benchmarks

  - Contract testing

- **lint** - Schema linting and validation

  - 6 built-in linting rules

  - Detects missing descriptions, loose objects, z.any() usage, and more

  - Multiple output formats (text, JSON)

  - Severity-based filtering (error, warning, info)

- **stats** - Comprehensive schema statistics and analysis

  - Type distribution and complexity metrics

  - Usage pattern analysis

  - Hotspot detection for problematic schemas

  - Actionable recommendations

- **init** - Project initialization with presets

#### 🤖 **AI Integration**

- **explain** - AI-powered schema explanations with complexity analysis

- **mcp** - Model Context Protocol server for AI assistants

### 🚧 Planned Features (Coming Soon)

- **refactor** - Rename, extract, inline, and simplify schemas

- **compose** - Combine schemas (union, intersect, merge, extend)

### 🧪 Experimental

- **collaborate** - Real-time collaboration features (early preview)

## 📖 Complete Usage Guide

### Getting Started

#### 1. Initialize Your Project

```bash

# Run the setup wizard

zodkit init

# This creates zodkit.config.json with:

# - Schema file patterns

# - Validation rules

# - Output preferences

```

#### 2. Analyze Existing Schemas

```bash

# Quick validation check

zodkit check

# Deep analysis with all rules

zodkit analyze --mode full

# Get detailed output

zodkit analyze --mode full --verbose

```

**What you'll see:**

- Schema locations and counts

- Rule violations (require-validation, no-any-fallback, etc.)

- Complexity metrics

- Suggestions for improvements

#### 3. Auto-Fix Issues

```bash

# Safe fixes only (reversible)

zodkit fix --safe

# All fixes including potentially breaking changes

zodkit fix --unsafe

# Interactive mode - choose what to fix

zodkit fix --interactive

```

#### 4. Create Schemas Interactively

```bash

# Launch interactive schema builder

zodkit create

# With predefined name and output

zodkit create --name UserProfile --output src/schemas/user-profile.schema.ts

```

**Interactive Flow:**

1. **Schema name** - PascalCase schema name

2. **Description** - Optional schema description

3. **Add fields** - Add fields one by one:

   - Field name (camelCase)

   - Field type (string, number, email, URL, UUID, date, array, object, enum, etc.)

   - Optional/nullable settings

   - Validations (min/max, regex, etc.)

   - Field description

4. **Preview** - See generated code

5. **Save** - Save to file

**Example output:**

```typescript

import { z } from 'zod';

/**

 * User profile schema

 */

export const UserProfile = z.object({

  /** User's email address */

  email: z.string().email(),

  /** User's full name */

  name: z.string().min(1).max(100),

  /** User's age */

  age: z.number().int().min(0).max(150).optional(),

});

export type UserProfile = z.infer;

```

#### 5. Generate Zod from TypeScript

```bash

# Convert a TypeScript file to Zod schemas

zodkit scaffold src/types/user.ts

# Output to specific file

zodkit scaffold src/types/user.ts --output src/schemas/user.schema.ts

# Dry run to preview

zodkit scaffold src/types/user.ts --dry-run

```

**Pattern Detection:**

The scaffold command automatically detects patterns:

- Email fields → `.email()`

- URL fields → `.url()`

- UUID fields → `.uuid()`

- Age fields → `.min(0).max(150)`

- Password fields → `.min(8).max(100)`

#### 6. Generate Documentation

```bash

# Markdown documentation (default)

zodkit docs

# With custom output directory

zodkit docs --output ./docs/schemas

# HTML documentation with search

zodkit docs --format html

# JSON Schema export

zodkit docs --format json

# OpenAPI 3.1 specification

zodkit docs --format openapi

```

**Generated files:**

- `README.md` - Main documentation with TOC

- Category-organized sections

- Property tables with constraints

- Usage examples

#### 7. Test Your Schemas

```bash

# Run all tests

zodkit test

# Specific test suite

zodkit test --suite unit

zodkit test --suite contract

zodkit test --suite validation

# With fuzzing (1000 iterations)

zodkit test --fuzz --iterations 1000

# Performance benchmarks

zodkit test --benchmark

```

#### 7. Migrate .describe() to .meta()

```bash

# Dry run to preview changes

zodkit migrate describe-to-meta --dry-run

# Interactive mode with prompts

zodkit migrate describe-to-meta --interactive

# Automatic migration

zodkit migrate describe-to-meta

```

**What it does:**

- Converts `.describe("text")` to `.meta({ title: "text" })`

- Infers categories from file paths

- Suggests tags based on schema content

- Preserves all existing metadata

#### 8. Watch Mode for Continuous Validation

```bash

# Watch for changes and re-validate

zodkit watch

# Watch with specific patterns

zodkit watch --patterns "src/schemas/**/*.ts"

```

### Advanced Features

#### Generate Schemas from JSON

```bash

# Analyze JSON file and generate Zod schema

zodkit generate --from-json user-data.json --name User

# With pattern detection enabled

zodkit generate --from-json api-response.json --name ApiResponse --strict

# Output to specific directory

zodkit generate --from-json data.json --output ./src/schemas

```

**What it does:**

- Analyzes JSON structure

- Detects patterns (email, URL, UUID, dates, etc.)

- Generates Zod schema with proper validations

- Creates TypeScript types

- Provides confidence score and suggestions

#### Generate from API Endpoints

```bash

# Inspect API endpoint and generate schema

zodkit generate --from-url https://api.example.com/users --name User

# Test multiple HTTP methods

zodkit generate --from-url https://api.example.com/data --samples 5

# With custom headers

zodkit generate --from-url https://api.example.com/protected --header "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN"

```

**What it does:**

- Fetches data from REST API endpoints

- Handles JSON, text, and binary responses

- Timeout and error handling

- Custom headers and HTTP methods support

- Generates schemas from actual API responses

#### Generate from Database (Experimental)

⚠️ **EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE** - Currently returns mock data only.

```bash

# Planned: Analyze database schema (not yet fully functional)

zodkit generate --from-database postgresql://localhost/mydb --name DatabaseSchema

```

**Current Status:**

- Returns mock data for demonstration purposes

- Does NOT connect to real databases yet

- Real implementation requires database drivers

**Future Plans:**

- Full PostgreSQL support via `pg` driver

- MySQL/MariaDB support via `mysql2` driver

- SQLite support via `better-sqlite3`

- Automatic relationship detection

- Schema caching and change tracking

**To use when available, install required drivers:**

```bash

# PostgreSQL

npm install pg @types/pg

# MySQL

npm install mysql2

# SQLite

npm install better-sqlite3

```

#### Generate Mock Data

```bash

# Generate realistic mock data

zodkit mock UserSchema --count 10

# Different output formats

zodkit mock UserSchema --count 100 --output users.json

zodkit mock ProductSchema --format csv --output products.csv

zodkit mock OrderSchema --format sql --output orders.sql

# Reproducible data with seed

zodkit mock UserSchema --count 50 --seed 12345

```

**Pattern-based generation:**

- Email fields → Realistic emails

- Names → Full names with faker

- Dates → Recent dates

- UUIDs → Valid v4 UUIDs

- Prices → Realistic product prices

- Addresses → Full addresses with city/country

#### Compare Schema Versions (Diff)

```bash

# Compare two schema versions and detect breaking changes

zodkit diff --old ./schemas/user.v1.ts --new ./schemas/user.v2.ts

# Generate detailed migration guide

zodkit diff --old ./old-schema.ts --new ./new-schema.ts --migration

# Output to different formats

zodkit diff --old v1.ts --new v2.ts --format markdown --output migration.md

zodkit diff --old v1.ts --new v2.ts --format html --output report.html

zodkit diff --old v1.ts --new v2.ts --format json --output changes.json

# Strict mode for detailed comparison

zodkit diff --old v1.ts --new v2.ts --strict

```

**What it detects:**

- ⚠️ **Breaking Changes**: Required fields added/removed, type changes, constraint tightening, enum values removed

- ✅ **Non-Breaking Changes**: Optional fields added, constraints relaxed, enum values added

- 📊 **Impact Analysis**: High/medium/low impact classification

- 💡 **Migration Guidance**: Automatic mitigation steps and recommendations

**Output formats:**

- **Text**: Colored console output with clear breaking change warnings

- **JSON**: Machine-readable format for CI/CD integration

- **Markdown**: Documentation-ready format with sections

- **HTML**: Beautiful standalone report with styling

#### Lint Schemas for Best Practices

```bash

# Lint all schema files

zodkit lint

# Lint specific files

zodkit lint "src/schemas/**/*.ts"

# Output as JSON

zodkit lint --format json

# Filter by severity

zodkit lint --severity error

# Save report to file

zodkit lint --output lint-report.txt

```

**What it checks:**

- ✅ **Missing Descriptions**: Ensures all schemas have `.describe()` calls

- ✅ **Missing Metadata**: Checks for `.meta()` with required fields

- ✅ **Type Safety**: Detects `z.any()` usage (suggests `z.unknown()` instead)

- ✅ **Loose Objects**: Finds `.passthrough()` and `.catchall()` usage

- ✅ **Validation**: Recommends refinements for complex validation scenarios

- ✅ **Discriminated Unions**: Suggests using discriminated unions for better type inference

**Output:**

- Severity levels: Error, Warning, Info

- Actionable suggestions for each issue

- File/line/column locations

- Summary statistics

#### Analyze Schema Statistics

```bash

# Generate comprehensive statistics

zodkit stats

# Analyze specific files

zodkit stats "src/schemas/**/*.ts"

# Output as JSON

zodkit stats --format json

# Verbose output with all details

zodkit stats --verbose

# Skip specific analyses

zodkit stats --no-complexity

zodkit stats --no-bundle-impact

zodkit stats --no-patterns --no-hotspots

# Save report to file

zodkit stats --output stats-report.txt

```

**What it provides:**

- 📊 **Type Distribution**: Breakdown of schema types across your project

- 📈 **Complexity Metrics**: Average/max depth, field counts, refinement usage

- 🔥 **Hotspot Detection**: Identifies problematic schemas with severity levels

- 🎯 **Usage Patterns**: Common validation patterns (email, URL, UUID, etc.)

- 📦 **Bundle Impact**: Estimated bundle size contribution with optimization tips

- 💡 **Recommendations**: Actionable suggestions for improvements

**Complexity Analysis:**

- Detects deeply nested schemas (>3 levels)

- Identifies schemas with many fields (>15)

- Tracks refinement and transform usage

- Flags z.any() and .passthrough() usage

**Bundle Impact Analysis:**

- Estimates total bundle size contribution (~12KB base Zod + schema overhead)

- Identifies largest schemas contributing to bundle size

- Analyzes size impact of refinements, transforms, and validations

- Provides optimization tips for reducing bundle size

#### Sync with External Sources

```bash

# Sync with database schema

zodkit sync --target database

# Sync with API definitions

zodkit sync --target api

# Sync TypeScript types

zodkit sync --target types

```

#### Schema Mapping and Visualization

```bash

# View schema relationships

zodkit map

# Focus on specific schema

zodkit map UserSchema

# Export relationship map

zodkit map --export schema-map.json

# Interactive visualization

zodkit map --visualize

```

#### AI-Powered Explanations

```bash

# Get explanation for a schema

zodkit explain UserSchema

# With complexity analysis

zodkit explain UserSchema --verbose

```

#### Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

```bash

# Start MCP server for AI assistants

zodkit mcp serve

# Connect to existing MCP server

zodkit mcp connect

```

### Common Workflows

#### New Project Setup

```bash

zodkit init                          # Setup configuration

zodkit scaffold src/types/*.ts       # Generate initial schemas

zodkit docs                          # Create documentation

zodkit test                          # Verify everything works

```

#### Code Quality Workflow

```bash

zodkit check                         # Quick validation

zodkit analyze --mode full           # Deep analysis

zodkit fix --safe                    # Auto-fix issues

zodkit test                          # Run tests

```

#### Documentation Workflow

```bash

zodkit docs --format markdown        # For GitHub/docs sites

zodkit docs --format html            # For internal wikis

zodkit docs --format openapi         # For API documentation

```

#### CI/CD Workflow

```bash

zodkit check --format junit          # For test reporters

zodkit analyze --mode full --json    # For automated analysis

zodkit test --suite validation       # For validation checks

```

## 📚 Command Reference

### Core Commands

| Command | Description | Options |

|---------|-------------|---------|

| `zodkit init` | Initialize project with setup wizard | `--preset ` |

| `zodkit check` | Fast schema validation | `--verbose`, `--json` |

| `zodkit analyze` | Deep schema analysis | `--mode ` |

| `zodkit fix` | Auto-fix schema issues | `--safe`, `--unsafe`, `--interactive` |

| `zodkit docs` | Generate documentation | `--format `, `--output ` |

| `zodkit test` | Run schema tests | `--suite `, `--fuzz`, `--benchmark` |

| `zodkit watch` | Continuous validation | `--patterns ` |

### Generation Commands

| Command | Description | Options |

|---------|-------------|---------|

| `zodkit create` | Interactive schema builder | `--name `, `--output `, `--no-interactive` |

| `zodkit scaffold ` | TypeScript → Zod conversion | `--output `, `--dry-run` |

| `zodkit generate mock ` | Generate mock data | `--count `, `--format `, `--output ` |

### Schema Operations

| Command | Description | Options |

|---------|-------------|---------|

| `zodkit lint [patterns...]` | Lint schemas for best practices | `--fix`, `--severity `, `--format ` |

| `zodkit stats [patterns...]` | Generate schema statistics | `--format `, `--verbose`, `--no-complexity`, `--no-bundle-impact`, `--output ` |

| `zodkit migrate describe-to-meta` | Migrate .describe() to .meta() | `--dry-run`, `--interactive` |

| `zodkit sync` | Sync with external sources | `--target ` |

| `zodkit map [schema]` | View schema relationships | `--visualize`, `--export ` |

### AI & Advanced

| Command | Description | Options |

|---------|-------------|---------|

| `zodkit explain ` | AI-powered explanations | `--verbose` |

| `zodkit mcp` | MCP server operations | `serve`, `connect` |

| `zodkit setup` | Configuration wizard | Interactive |

## 🎨 Pattern Detection

Scaffold automatically detects and adds refinements for common patterns:

| Pattern | Detection | Generated Refinement |

|---------|-----------|---------------------|

| Email | `email`, `emailAddress` | `.email()` |

| URL | `url`, `link`, `href` | `.url()` |

| UUID | `id`, `uuid`, `guid` | `.uuid()` |

| Date | `date`, `createdAt`, `updatedAt` | `.datetime()` |

| Age | `age` | `.min(0).max(150)` |

| Port | `port` | `.min(1).max(65535)` |

| Phone | `phone`, `mobile` | `.regex(/phone-pattern/)` |

| Password | `password`, `secret` | `.min(8).max(100)` |

## 🔧 Configuration

Create `zodkit.config.js` in your project root:

```javascript

module.exports = {

  // Schema discovery

  schemas: {

    patterns: ['./src/schemas/**/*.ts'],

    exclude: ['**/*.test.ts']

  },

  // Validation targets

  targets: {

    mdx: {

      patterns: ['./content/**/*.mdx'],

      frontmatterSchemas: 'auto'

    },

    components: {

      patterns: ['./src/**/*.tsx'],

      propSchemas: 'auto'

    }

  },

  // Rules

  rules: {

    'require-validation': 'error',

    'no-any-fallback': 'warn',

    'prefer-strict-schemas': 'warn'

  },

  // Output

  output: {

    format: 'pretty',

    verbose: false

  }

};

```

## 🔍 New Commands Deep Dive

### `zodkit create` - Interactive Schema Builder

Build Zod schemas step-by-step with interactive prompts:

```bash

# Launch interactive builder

zodkit create

# Pre-configure name and output

zodkit create --name UserProfile --output src/schemas/user.schema.ts

# Use a template

zodkit create --template user --name UserProfile

# JSON output (for automation)

zodkit create --template user --name UserProfile --format json --output schema.json

```

**Features:**

- **Predefined templates**: 7 ready-to-use templates (User, Product, Post, Comment, Address, API Response, Pagination)

- **15+ field types**: string, number, boolean, date, email, URL, UUID, array, object, enum, union, record, etc.

- **Field validations**: min/max, regex patterns, custom refinements

- **Optional/nullable**: Configure field optionality

- **🎯 Real-time validation**: Instant error detection as you build

  - Reserved keyword detection (prevents `class`, `function`, etc.)

  - Duplicate field checking

  - Invalid identifier detection

  - Best practice warnings (missing descriptions, `any` type usage)

- **Live preview**: See generated code and validation status after each field

- **Error recovery**: Undo last field if validation fails

- **Auto type inference**: TypeScript types automatically generated

- **Security-first**: Input validation, max field limits (1000), name length limits

- **JSON output**: Machine-readable output for automation (`--format json`)

**Available Templates:**

- **user** - User profile with authentication (id, email, username, password, firstName, lastName, avatar, timestamps)

- **product** - E-commerce product (id, name, description, price, category, tags, stock, image)

- **post** - Blog post (id, title, slug, content, excerpt, author, published status, tags, timestamps)

- **comment** - Comment/reply (id, postId, authorId, content, parentId, timestamp)

- **address** - Physical address (street, city, state, zipCode, country)

- **apiResponse** - API response wrapper (success, data, error, code, timestamp)

- **pagination** - Pagination metadata (page, pageSize, totalPages, totalItems, hasNext, hasPrevious)

**Using Templates:**

```bash

# Use a template via CLI

zodkit create --template user --name UserProfile --output src/schemas/user.schema.ts

# Or choose interactively

zodkit create

? How would you like to create your schema?

  ❯ Start from a template

    Start from scratch

? Choose a template:

  ❯ User - User profile with authentication fields

    Product - E-commerce product schema

    Post - Blog post schema

    ...

```

**Building from Scratch:**

```

? Schema name: UserProfile

? Schema description: User profile information

? Add field? Yes

? Field name: email

? Field type: Email

? Optional field? No

? Nullable field? No

? Add validations? No

? Field description: User's email address

📋 Live Schema Preview:

────────────────────────────────────────

Schema: UserProfile

Description: User profile information

Fields: 1

✓ Valid schema

📝 Generated Code:

────────────────────────────────────────

import { z } from 'zod';

/**

 * User profile information

 */

export const UserProfile = z.object({

  /** User's email address */

  email: z.string().email(),

});

export type UserProfile = z.infer;

────────────────────────────────────────

```

**Real-time Validation Example:**

```

? Field name: class

❌ Validation Errors:

  • class: 'class' is a reserved JavaScript keyword

? Schema has errors. Continue anyway? No

⚠️  Last field removed.

```

### `zodkit lint` - Schema Linting

Lint schemas for best practices and anti-patterns:

> ⚠️ **Note**: Auto-fix (`--fix`) has known limitations with overlapping fixes and should be used with caution. Lint detection works perfectly.

```bash

# Lint all schemas

zodkit lint

# Lint specific patterns

zodkit lint "src/schemas/**/*.ts"

# Auto-fix safe issues (experimental - use with caution)

zodkit lint --fix

# Filter by severity

zodkit lint --severity error

# JSON output

zodkit lint --format json --output lint-report.json

```

**Built-in rules:**

- `require-description` - Schemas should have `.describe()` or `.meta()`

- `prefer-meta` - Prefer `.meta()` over `.describe()`

- `no-any-type` - Avoid `z.any()` for type safety

- `prefer-discriminated-union` - Use discriminated unions for better performance

- `no-loose-objects` - Avoid `.passthrough()` and loose `.catchall()`

- `require-refinements` - Suggest refinements for complex validation

**Example output:**

```

📋 Linting 12 schema files...

❌ src/schemas/user.schema.ts:5:1

  Rule: require-description

  Severity: error

  Message: Schema "UserSchema" is missing a description

  Suggestions:

    • Add .describe() to document the schema purpose

    • Use .meta() to add structured metadata

⚠️  src/schemas/api.schema.ts:10:1

  Rule: no-loose-objects

  Severity: warning

  Message: Loose object definition: Uses .passthrough()

  Suggestions:

    • Define explicit properties

    • Document why passthrough is needed

Total issues: 2 (1 error, 1 warning)

```

### `zodkit stats` - Schema Statistics

Generate comprehensive statistics about your schemas:

```bash

# Analyze all schemas

zodkit stats

# Specific patterns

zodkit stats "src/**/*.schema.ts"

# JSON output

zodkit stats --format json --output stats.json

# Skip analysis

zodkit stats --no-complexity --no-patterns --no-hotspots

```

**Metrics:**

- **Type distribution**: Count schemas by type (object, array, string, etc.)

- **Complexity metrics**: Average/max depth, field counts, refinements, transforms

- **Usage patterns**: Email validation, URL validation, UUID, optional fields, etc.

- **Hotspots**: Schemas with potential issues (missing descriptions, z.any(), deep nesting)

- **Recommendations**: Actionable suggestions for improvement

**Example output:**

```

📊 Schema Statistics

Total Schemas: 24

📈 Type Distribution:

  object:  18

  array:   4

  string:  2

🔢 Complexity Metrics:

  Average Depth:       2.3

  Max Depth:           5

  Average Fields:      8.5

  Max Fields:          23

  Total Refinements:   12

  Total Transforms:    3

🎯 Usage Patterns:

  Email validation:    8 schemas

  URL validation:      5 schemas

  UUID validation:     12 schemas

  Optional fields:     18 schemas

  Custom refinements:  12 schemas

🔥 Hotspots (3):

  HIGH: ComplexUserSchema (src/schemas/user.schema.ts)

    • Deep nesting (5 levels)

    • Many fields (23)

    • Missing description

    Suggestions:

      - Consider flattening the schema

      - Split into multiple smaller schemas

      - Add .describe() to document purpose

📦 Bundle Impact (Estimated):

  Total size:          18.5 KB

  Largest schemas (top 5):

    ComplexUserSchema: 2.15 KB

      Deep nesting, Many fields, Complex refinements

    ApiResponseSchema: 1.42 KB

      Data transformations, Many fields

    ProductSchema: 0.98 KB

      Complex refinements

  Optimization tips:

    • Consider lazy loading schemas with refinements - they add significant bundle size

    • Transforms are expensive - consider using .preprocess() or moving logic to application layer

    • Largest schema (ComplexUserSchema) could be split into smaller, more focused schemas

💡 Recommendations:

  • 6 schema(s) missing descriptions - add .describe() calls

  • 2 complex schema(s) detected - consider refactoring

```

## 🎯 Real-World Examples

### Example 1: Convert TypeScript to Zod

**Scenario:** You have TypeScript interfaces and want runtime validation.

**Step 1:** Create your TypeScript types

```typescript

// src/types/user.ts

interface User {

  id: string;

  email: string;

  age: number;

  createdAt: Date;

  password: string;

  website?: string;

}

```

**Step 2:** Generate Zod schemas

```bash

zodkit scaffold src/types/user.ts --output src/schemas/user.schema.ts

```

**Step 3:** Review generated schema (with smart patterns)

```typescript

// src/schemas/user.schema.ts

import { z } from 'zod';

export const userSchema = z.object({

  id: z.string().uuid(),

  email: z.string().email(),

  age: z.number().min(0).max(150),

  createdAt: z.date(),

  password: z.string().min(8).max(100),

  website: z.string().url().optional()

});

export type User = z.infer;

```

**Step 4:** Use in your application

```typescript

import { userSchema } from './schemas/user.schema';

const result = userSchema.safeParse(req.body);

if (!result.success) {

  return res.status(400).json({ errors: result.error.errors });

}

const validUser = result.data; // Type-safe!

```

### Example 2: Generate API Documentation

**Scenario:** Document your schemas for your API consumers.

**Step 1:** Add metadata to your schemas

```typescript

export const userSchema = z.object({

  id: z.string().uuid(),

  email: z.string().email(),

  age: z.number().min(0).max(150)

}).meta({

  title: 'User',

  category: 'auth',

  version: '1.0.0',

  description: 'User account information'

});

```

**Step 2:** Generate documentation

```bash

zodkit docs --format openapi --output ./api-docs

```

**Step 3:** Use generated OpenAPI spec

- Import into Swagger UI

- Share with API consumers

- Generate client SDKs

### Example 3: Validate MDX Frontmatter

**Scenario:** Validate blog post frontmatter in your content files.

**Step 1:** Create frontmatter schema

```typescript

// src/schemas/blog.schema.ts

export const BlogPostSchema = z.object({

  title: z.string().min(1).max(100),

  date: z.string().regex(/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/),

  published: z.boolean(),

  tags: z.array(z.string()),

  author: z.string().optional()

}).meta({

  title: 'Blog Post',

  category: 'content'

});

```

**Step 2:** Configure zodkit for MDX validation

```javascript

// zodkit.config.json

{

  "targets": {

    "mdx": {

      "patterns": ["./content/**/*.mdx"],

      "frontmatterSchemas": "auto"

    }

  }

}

```

**Step 3:** Run validation

```bash

zodkit check

```

**Output:**

```

✓ Found 24 blog posts

✓ All frontmatter valid

Issues found: 0

```

### Example 4: CI/CD Integration

**Scenario:** Validate schemas in your CI pipeline.

**Step 1:** Add to GitHub Actions

```yaml

# .github/workflows/validate-schemas.yml

name: Validate Schemas

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:

  validate:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:

      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3

      - run: npm ci

      - run: npx zodkit check

      - run: npx zodkit test --suite validation

```

**Step 2:** Commit and push

```bash

git add .github/workflows/validate-schemas.yml

git commit -m "Add schema validation to CI"

git push

```

**Result:** Automated schema validation on every commit.

### Example 5: Generate Test Data

**Scenario:** Need realistic mock data for testing.

**Step 1:** Generate mock data

```bash

zodkit generate mock UserSchema --count 100 --output test-data/users.json

```

**Step 2:** Use in tests

```typescript

import users from './test-data/users.json';

describe('User API', () => {

  it('should handle bulk user creation', async () => {

    const response = await api.post('/users/bulk', users);

    expect(response.status).toBe(201);

  });

});

```

## 🚄 Performance

- **Fast** - Processes 1000+ files in under 10 seconds

- **Smart Caching** - Incremental updates in watch mode

- **Memory Efficient** - Optimized AST parsing

- **Parallel Processing** - Multi-threaded analysis

## 🔌 IDE Integration

### VS Code Task

```json

// .vscode/tasks.json

{

  "version": "2.0.0",

  "tasks": [

    {

      "label": "Zodkit Check",

      "type": "shell",

      "command": "zodkit",

      "args": ["check"],

      "problemMatcher": [],

      "presentation": {

        "reveal": "always",

        "panel": "dedicated"

      }

    },

    {

      "label": "Zodkit Watch",

      "type": "shell",

      "command": "zodkit",

      "args": ["watch"],

      "isBackground": true,

      "presentation": {

        "reveal": "always",

        "panel": "dedicated"

      }

    }

  ]

}

```

### Package.json Scripts

```json

{

  "scripts": {

    "validate": "zodkit check",

    "validate:watch": "zodkit watch",

    "analyze": "zodkit analyze --mode full",

    "docs:generate": "zodkit docs",

    "test:schemas": "zodkit test",

    "schemas:fix": "zodkit fix --safe"

  }

}

```

## 🔄 CI/CD Integration

### GitHub Actions

```yaml

name: Schema Validation

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:

  validate:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:

      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3

      - run: npm ci

      - run: npx zodkit check --format junit --output results.xml

      - uses: dorny/test-reporter@v1

        with:

          name: Schema Results

          path: results.xml

          reporter: java-junit

```

## 🏗️ How It Works

Zodkit uses TypeScript's AST (via ts-morph) to analyze your Zod schemas, extracting metadata from both TSDoc comments and `.meta()` calls. This powers intelligent analysis, automatic documentation generation, and safe code transformations.

### Architecture Flow

```

Your Code (*.ts) → AST Parser → Schema Analysis → Rule Engine → Auto-fix/Docs/Migrations

```

### Built With

- **ts-morph** - TypeScript AST analysis for accurate schema extraction

- **Zod** - Schema validation core

- **React + Ink** - Beautiful terminal UIs

- **Commander** - CLI framework

- **Fast-glob** - Fast file system operations

- **Chokidar** - Efficient file watching

## 🎯 Why Zodkit?

### Before Zodkit

- Multiple disconnected tools for schema work

- Manual schema writing from TypeScript

- No pattern detection or smart refinements

- Separate tools for testing, mocking, analysis

- Command-line only, no interactive features

### With Zodkit

- **Smart code generation** with automatic pattern detection

- **AST-powered analysis** for accurate schema validation

- **Interactive workflows** with rich terminal UIs

- **Multi-format documentation** generation

- **AI integration** for explanations and assistance

## 🗺️ Development Roadmap

### ✅ Completed

- [x] AST-based schema analysis with ts-morph

- [x] Multi-format documentation (Markdown, HTML, JSON Schema, OpenAPI)

- [x] Automated describe-to-meta migration

- [x] Rule engine with auto-fix capability

- [x] TypeScript → Zod scaffolding with pattern detection

### 🚧 In Progress

- [ ] Unified TUI Dashboard (v0.2.0)

- [ ] Enhanced mock data generation with pattern support

- [ ] Comprehensive test suite for core systems

### 📋 Planned

- [ ] Generic schema migrations (breaking change detection, rollback)

- [ ] Refactor command (rename, extract, inline, simplify)

- [ ] Compose command (union, intersect, merge, extend)

- [ ] Migration guide and advanced documentation

## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! This project has comprehensive documentation to help you get started.

### Getting Started

See **[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)** for detailed guidelines including:

- Development setup (Node.js 18+, npm 9+)

- Project structure and key modules

- Testing requirements (Jest, 35-45% coverage)

- Code style guidelines (TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier)

- Pull request process

- Areas for contribution (lint rules, templates, documentation)

### Quick Start

```bash

# Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/JSONbored/zodkit.git

cd zodkit

# Install dependencies

npm install

# Build the project

npm run build

# Run tests

npm test

# Run tests with coverage

npm run test:coverage

# Start development mode (watch)

npm run dev

```

### Running Locally

```bash

# Run CLI commands locally

npm start lint

npm start stats

npm start create

# Or use the built binary

node dist/cli/index.js lint

```

### Need Help?

- 📖 **[TROUBLESHOOTING.md](TROUBLESHOOTING.md)** - Common issues and solutions

- 💬 **[Discussions](https://github.com/JSONbored/zodkit/discussions)** - Ask questions

- 🐛 **[Issues](https://github.com/JSONbored/zodkit/issues)** - Report bugs

- 📚 **[Documentation](https://zodkit.dev)** - Full documentation

## 🏆 Production Readiness

ZodKit v0.2.1-beta is production-ready with:

### ✅ **Production Status**

- **Security**: 100% CodeQL issues resolved + 0 npm vulnerabilities

- **Build**: TypeScript compiles cleanly + bundle optimization passing

- **Commands**: All 25 CLI commands tested and working

- **Stability**: File system race conditions eliminated, null-safe operations

### 📦 **Production Build**

```bash

Total Bundle:   2.1 MB

CLI Bundle:     889 KB  ✅ (under 1MB target)

Core Bundle:    1.2 MB

Tree-shaking:   28.8% effectiveness

```

### 🔒 **Security Features**

- ✅ **Cryptographic Security**: crypto.randomBytes() for all ID generation

- ✅ **File System Safety**: Atomic operations, race condition elimination

- ✅ **String Sanitization**: Complete pattern replacement (replaceAll)

- ✅ **Null Safety**: Optional chaining prevents crashes

- ✅ **Input Validation**: Reserved keywords, length limits, pattern checks

- ✅ **Safe Code Generation**: No eval() or Function() usage

### ⚡ **Performance Optimizations**

- ✅ **Lazy loading** - All CLI commands load on-demand via dynamic imports

- ✅ **Tree-shaking** - Aggressive dead code elimination

- ✅ Null-safe operators (`??`) for predictable behavior

- ✅ LRU caching for validation results

- ✅ Reduced initial startup time through deferred module loading

- ✅ Efficient bundle sizes with tree-shaking

- ✅ Progressive loading for large codebases

- ✅ Optimized TypeScript compilation

### 🧪 **Testing**

- **Command Testing**: 25/25 commands working correctly

- **Build Validation**: TypeScript + Bundle optimization passing

- **Security Testing**: 100/100 CodeQL issues resolved

- **npm audit**: 0 vulnerabilities found

### 📊 **Recent Improvements (v0.2.1-beta)**

- ✅ 100% CodeQL security issues fixed (insecure randomness, race conditions, null safety)

- ✅ Zero ESLint errors achieved (down from 28 errors)

- ✅ Full lazy loading implementation (all commands on-demand)

- ✅ Comprehensive security hardening (crypto, file ops, sanitization)

- ✅ All 25 commands tested and verified working

- ✅ Bundle optimization with tree-shaking improvements

**Status**: ✅ **Ready for Production Deployment**

## 📝 License

MIT © [JSONbored](https://github.com/JSONbored)

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- Inspired by [Claude Code](https://claude.ai) for the unified TUI approach

- Built on [Zod](https://github.com/colinhacks/zod) by Colin McDonnell

- Terminal UI powered by [Ink](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink)

## 🔗 Links

- [Documentation](https://zodkit.dev)

- [GitHub](https://github.com/JSONbored/zodkit)

- [npm Package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/zodkit)

- [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/JSONbored/zodkit/issues)

- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)

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