typia

What is typia?

Typia is a TypeScript library that provides runtime type checking, validation, and serialization/deserialization capabilities. It aims to enhance type safety and runtime validation for TypeScript applications.

What are typia's main functionalities?

Runtime Type Checking

This feature allows you to perform runtime type checking to ensure that a value matches a specified TypeScript type. The code sample demonstrates how to check if a value is a string at runtime.

const isString = typia.is<string>(value);

Validation

Typia provides validation capabilities to ensure that data conforms to a specified type. The code sample shows how to validate an object against a TypeScript type, returning a result that indicates whether the data is valid.

const validationResult = typia.validate<MyType>(data);

Serialization/Deserialization

Typia can serialize TypeScript objects to JSON strings and deserialize JSON strings back to TypeScript objects, ensuring type safety throughout the process. The code sample demonstrates both serialization and deserialization.

const jsonString = typia.stringify<MyType>(data); const dataObject = typia.parse<MyType>(jsonString);

Other packages similar to typia

io-ts

io-ts is a runtime type system for IO decoding/encoding in TypeScript. It provides similar functionality to typia in terms of runtime type checking and validation. However, io-ts uses a functional programming approach and is more focused on decoding and encoding data.

zod

Zod is a TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library. It offers similar validation and type-checking capabilities as typia but with a more declarative API for defining schemas. Zod is known for its simplicity and ease of use.

class-validator

Class-validator is a library for validating TypeScript class objects. It provides decorators for defining validation rules directly in class definitions. While it focuses on class-based validation, typia offers a broader range of type-related utilities.

README

Typia

// RUNTIME VALIDATORS
export function is<T>(input: unknown): input is T; // returns boolean
export function assert<T>(input: unknown): T; // throws TypeGuardError
export function assertGuard<T>(input: unknown): asserts input is T;
export function validate<T>(input: unknown): IValidation<T>; // detailed

// JSON FUNCTIONS
export namespace json {
    export function application<T>(): IJsonApplication; // JSON schema
    export function assertParse<T>(input: string): T; // type safe parser
    export function assertStringify<T>(input: T): string; // safe and faster
}

// PROTOCOL BUFFER
export namespace protobuf {
    export function message<T>(): string; // Protocol Buffer message
    export function assertDecode<T>(buffer: Uint8Array): T; // safe decoder
    export function assertEncode<T>(input: T): Uint8Array; // safe encoder
}

// RANDOM GENERATOR
export function random<T>(g?: Partial<IRandomGenerator>): T;

Typia is a transformer library supporting below features:

• Super-fast Runtime Validators
• Enhanced JSON functions
• Protocol Buffer encoder and decoder
• Random data generator

Note

• Only one line required, with pure TypeScript type
• Runtime validator is 20,000x faster than class-validator
• JSON serialization is 200x faster than class-transformer

Sponsors

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Playground

You can experience how typia works by playground website:

• 💻 https://typia.io/playground

Guide Documents

Check out the document in the website:

🏠 Home

• Introduction
• Setup
• Pure TypeScript

📖 Features

• Runtime Validators
  • assert() function
  • is() function
  • validate() function
  • Functional Module
  • Special Tags
• Enhanced JSON
  • JSON Schema
  • stringify() functions
  • parse() functions
• Protocol Buffer
  • Message Schema
  • decode() functions
  • encode() functions
• Random Generator
• Miscellaneous

🔗 Appendix

• Utillization Cases
  • NestJS
  • Prisma
  • tRPC
• ⇲ Benchmark Result
• ⇲ dev.to Articles