In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Zod, a TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference. How are we using Zod? What do we like? And our thoughts on the Zod ecosystem.

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Show Notes

00:24 Welcome
01:48 Sponsor: LogRocket
02:54 Sponsor: Linode
04:07 Minecraft thoughts
Minecraft
06:25 Scratch
Scratch
07:19 What is Zod?
Zod
Zod comparison
10:05 Features of Zod
13:24 How we’re using Zod
14:40 How Zod works with MongoDB
15:51 3rd party plugins
19:35 Zod ecosystem
Zod Ecosystem
22:22 Asynchronous validation

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