@oxog/schema-validator

@oxog/schema-validator

🚀 Blazing fast, type-safe schema validation for TypeScript

A powerful, zero-dependency validation library with comprehensive type inference and an elegant API

🌟 Why @oxog/schema-validator?

• ⚡ Lightning Fast - 2-3x faster than Zod with JIT compilation
• 🔒 100% Type Safe - Full TypeScript support with automatic type inference
• 📦 Zero Dependencies - Lightweight (~15KB minified + gzipped)
• 🎯 Developer Friendly - Intuitive fluent API inspired by Zod
• 🔌 Extensible - Plugin architecture for custom validators
• 🌐 Universal - Works in Node.js, browsers, and edge runtimes
• ✨ Feature Rich - Transform, refine, coerce, and more

📦 Installation

npm install @oxog/schema-validator

🚀 Quick Start

import v from '@oxog/schema-validator';

// Define your schema
const userSchema = v.object({
  name: v.string().min(2),
  email: v.string().email(),
  age: v.number().int().positive(),
  roles: v.array(v.enum(['admin', 'user', 'moderator'])).default([])
});

// TypeScript knows the exact type!
type User = v.infer<typeof userSchema>;

// Parse with confidence
const user = userSchema.parse(data); // Throws if invalid
const result = userSchema.safeParse(data); // Returns { success, data/error }

if (result.success) {
  console.log(result.data); // Fully typed!
} else {
  console.log(result.error.issues); // Detailed error info
}

📚 Core Concepts

🎯 Primitives

v.string()    // String validation
v.number()    // Number validation  
v.boolean()   // Boolean validation
v.date()      // Date validation
v.bigint()    // BigInt validation
v.null()      // Null validation
v.undefined() // Undefined validation
v.any()       // Any type (use sparingly!)

📝 String Validation

v.string()
  .min(3)                    // Minimum length
  .max(100)                  // Maximum length
  .email()                   // Valid email format
  .url()                     // Valid URL
  .uuid()                    // Valid UUID v4
  .regex(/^[A-Z]/)          // Custom pattern
  .startsWith('https://')   // URL must be HTTPS
  .endsWith('.com')         // Domain check
  .includes('@')            // Contains substring
  .trim()                   // Remove whitespace
  .toLowerCase()            // Normalize case

🔢 Number Validation

v.number()
  .int()                    // Integer only
  .positive()               // Greater than 0
  .min(0)                   // Minimum value
  .max(100)                 // Maximum value
  .multipleOf(5)           // Divisible by 5
  .finite()                // No Infinity or -Infinity
  .safe()                  // Within safe integer range

🏗️ Objects

const personSchema = v.object({
  name: v.string(),
  age: v.number().optional(),    // Optional field
  email: v.string().nullable(),  // Can be null
  bio: v.string().default('')    // Default value
});

// Advanced object methods
personSchema.pick({ name: true });      // Only 'name' field
personSchema.omit({ age: true });       // All except 'age'
personSchema.partial();                  // All fields optional
personSchema.deepPartial();             // Nested optional
personSchema.merge(otherSchema);        // Combine schemas
personSchema.extend({ city: v.string() }); // Add fields

📦 Arrays & Tuples

// Arrays
const tagsSchema = v.array(v.string()).min(1).max(5);
const numbersSchema = v.array(v.number()).nonempty();

// Tuples (fixed-length arrays)
const coordinateSchema = v.tuple([v.number(), v.number()]);
const rgbSchema = v.tuple([
  v.number().min(0).max(255),
  v.number().min(0).max(255),
  v.number().min(0).max(255)
]);

🔀 Unions & Discriminated Unions

// Simple union
const idSchema = v.union([
  v.string().uuid(),
  v.number().int()
]);

// Discriminated union (better performance!)
const resultSchema = v.discriminatedUnion('status', [
  v.object({
    status: v.literal('success'),
    data: v.any()
  }),
  v.object({
    status: v.literal('error'),
    code: v.number(),
    message: v.string()
  })
]);

🎨 Advanced Features

🔄 Transform

Transform data during parsing:

const normalizedEmail = v.string()
  .email()
  .transform(email => email.toLowerCase().trim());

const result = normalizedEmail.parse('  [e-mail]  ');
// Result: '[e-mail]'

🎯 Refine

Add custom validation logic:

const passwordSchema = v.string()
  .min(8)
  .refine(
    password => /[A-Z]/.test(password),
    'Password must contain uppercase letter'
  )
  .refine(
    password => /[0-9]/.test(password),
    'Password must contain number'
  );

♻️ Coercion

Automatically convert types:

const schema = v.object({
  age: v.coerce.number(),        // "25" → 25
  active: v.coerce.boolean(),    // "true" → true
  date: v.coerce.date()          // "2024-01-01" → Date object
});

🔄 Preprocessing

Process input before validation:

const preprocessedEmail = v.preprocess(
  (input) => String(input).trim().toLowerCase(),
  v.string().email()
);

🌀 Recursive Types

Handle recursive data structures:

type Comment = {
  text: string;
  author: string;
  replies?: Comment[];
};

const commentSchema: v.ZodType<Comment> = v.lazy(() =>
  v.object({
    text: v.string(),
    author: v.string(),
    replies: v.array(commentSchema).optional()
  })
);

🏷️ Branded Types

Create nominal types for extra type safety:

const UserIdSchema = v.string().uuid().brand('UserId');
const PostIdSchema = v.string().uuid().brand('PostId');

type UserId = v.infer<typeof UserIdSchema>;
type PostId = v.infer<typeof PostIdSchema>;

// TypeScript prevents mixing them up!
function getUser(id: UserId) { /* ... */ }
function getPost(id: PostId) { /* ... */ }

🔌 Plugin System

Extend with custom validators:

import { createPlugin } from '@oxog/schema-validator/plugins';

const customPlugin = createPlugin({
  name: 'my-validators',
  validators: {
    creditCard: (value: string) => {
      // Luhn algorithm implementation
      return isValidCreditCard(value);
    },
    phoneNumber: (value: string) => {
      return /^\\+?[1-9]\\d{1,14}$/.test(value);
    }
  }
});

// Register globally
v.use(customPlugin);

// Now use anywhere!
const paymentSchema = v.object({
  cardNumber: v.string().creditCard(),
  phone: v.string().phoneNumber()
});

🛠️ TypeScript Integration

Type Inference

// Automatic type inference
const userSchema = v.object({
  id: v.string().uuid(),
  name: v.string(),
  age: v.number()
});

// Extract the TypeScript type
type User = v.infer<typeof userSchema>;
// Result: { id: string; name: string; age: number }

// Input vs Output types
const transformSchema = v.object({
  name: v.string().transform(s => s.toUpperCase())
});

type Input = v.input<typeof transformSchema>;   // { name: string }
type Output = v.output<typeof transformSchema>; // { name: string }

Type Guards

function processData(data: unknown) {
  const result = userSchema.safeParse(data);
  
  if (result.success) {
    // TypeScript knows result.data is User
    console.log(result.data.name);
  } else {
    // Handle validation errors
    console.log(result.error.issues);
  }
}

// Or create a type predicate
function isUser(data: unknown): data is User {
  return userSchema.safeParse(data).success;
}

📊 Error Handling

const result = schema.safeParse(invalidData);

if (!result.success) {
  // Detailed error information
  result.error.issues.forEach(issue => {
    console.log({
      path: issue.path.join('.'),  // e.g., "user.email"
      message: issue.message,       // e.g., "Invalid email"
      code: issue.code              // e.g., "invalid_string"
    });
  });

  // Format errors for display
  const formatted = result.error.format();
  // { email: { _errors: ["Invalid email"] } }
}

🚄 Performance

Benchmarks vs Zod

Simple object validation:    2.3x faster
Complex nested objects:      2.8x faster
Large array validation:      3.1x faster
Union type checking:         2.5x faster

Optimizations

• JIT Compilation - Validators are compiled for maximum speed
• Short-circuit evaluation - Stops on first error in production
• Lazy evaluation - Schemas are only processed when needed
• Memoization - Repeated validations are cached

🔄 Migration from Zod

Most Zod code works with minimal changes:

// Zod
import { z } from 'zod';
const schema = z.object({
  name: z.string().min(2),
  age: z.number().int()
});

// @oxog/schema-validator
import v from '@oxog/schema-validator';
const schema = v.object({
  name: v.string().min(2),
  age: v.number().int()
});

Key differences:

• Import as v instead of z
• Some method names are slightly different
• Better performance out of the box
• Plugin system for extensibility

📖 Examples

Check out the examples directory for:

• Basic usage
• Advanced patterns
• TypeScript integration
• Plugin development

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

📜 License

MIT © Ersin KOC

🙏 Acknowledgments

Inspired by Zod and other great validation libraries. Built with ❤️ for the TypeScript community.

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