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		run-types on Sept 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON Schema bundling formalised For those looking to sanitize input from Typescript, I highly recommend the runtypes library: https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes It let's you specify type definitions a DSL in Typescript using syntax very similar to Typescript's type definitions. Once you define your types in the DSL, you get Typescript types and parsing / verification for free. Not as general purpose as JSON Schema, but 1000x cleaner and easier to use.

dolmen on Sept 10, 2021 | [–]

The point of JSON Schema is to have a common format independant of the programming language to ease interoperability.

move-on-by on Sept 10, 2021 | [–]

I've never seen runtypes, but I've seen io-ts [1]. Are you aware of the pros/cons between them?

[1] https://gcanti.github.io/io-ts/

run-types on Sept 10, 2021 | [–]

They look roughly the same

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