A topic that can cause a lot of discussions:_ “What is the best way to parse and verify user input in Node.js?”_
Well, according to me it is Zod and today I am going to show you how to get started with Zod and why it is the absolute best!
First of all, we have to install Zod. You can do this with your favorite package manager.
npm install zod
// OR
yarn add zod
In our first schema, we are going to create one for a simple string.
Don’t worry we will get to more complicated validations later in this article.
All you need to do is:
Let’s say we want a schema to parse a name. We want to put a few constraints on this name. We want it to: be a string, be at least 2 characters long and have a maximum length of 20 characters.
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