Zod for validation

[chrome basalt]

Has any one used Zod over c-v for Nest apps? whats the method you used

[bleak grotto]

There's a guide on how to do with with Joi in the docs: https://docs.nestjs.com/pipes#object-schema-validation

I reckon with zod, it would be similar

[lost grotto]

there are few community-made packages that might help you: https://npms.io/search?q=nestjs+zod

[chrome basalt]

https://github.com/risenforces/nestjs-zod

looks promising

[chrome basalt]

since c-v is not maintained nest should focus on something else

[bleak grotto]

They already forked the c-v and c-t repos. But not being maintained does not mean not working. But swithching everything to work with the new javascript decorators will be a lot of fun.

[placid geode]

Here's also a relevant note by Jay: #1074384699587313705 message

[lost grotto]

do you know any other popular validation lib that have a decorator-based API?

[chrome basalt]

nop, but zod seems a fine alt i think

[lost grotto]

I think we should have a decorator-based one, due to how the fw was designed

[chrome basalt]

it has certain problems though...i ve shoot in the foot multiple time

[chrome basalt]

can we have zod decorators

[lost grotto]

the ones I know only have community-made integrations with typescript decorators, which means that we can't use them into the core

[chrome basalt]

hmm this is a serious question

i like zod a lot, can do really complex validations out of the box

[lost grotto]

then use zod
Nestjs won't force you to use c-v c-t

I believe that until we have a "native" support for TS decorators on zod or any other popular validation lib out there, the core will stick with c-v
Although I don't use class-validator (I've made my own validation pipe using Joi), I don't see any reason to introduce yet another lib with the same role as c-v c-t into the core
We could probably replace it in the future tho

[chrome basalt]

whats your approach with joi

[lost grotto]

tbh, the API isn't that good because I'm just using Joi (which doesn't have a decorator API)
I've made a decorator to attach the Joi schema object to some class
And then my pipe will recover that schema to perform the validation (as the docs suggests)

I'd try this one: #community-packages message

[chrome basalt]

this looks better btw

you get swagger docs also

but problem comes when we use graphql 😄

[dire mirage]

What kind of problems ? I am curious

[chrome basalt]

generating graphql schema from zod

currently cli supports parsing DTOs with ts comments to generate schema

but with zod it will be different

[lunar rune]

i dont like zod

[dire mirage]

I love Zod, it's making my life so much easier. You can express much more complex APIs easily

[dire mirage]

Do remember to use strictNullChecks and strict in generall btw

[inland crescent]

@chrome basalt How about typia ever used that?

[chrome basalt]

never used that, looks interesting

can it do things like min().max()