Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mccorrinall 1277 days ago
While Zod is hyped by Next.ja developers (I think mostly because Theo Brown has such a huge reach), I think Ajv is better, because it lets you generate OpenAPI documentation and it fully json schema compliant.

I really like nextjs for its opinions on the frontend part, but it is lacking these strong, but great opinions on the backend. Wish love to see some design decisions from fastify adopted here. Matteo did really do some great stuff.
2 comments
intelekshual 1277 days ago
Zod has plugins that let you generate OpenAPI specs (and TS types, and JSON Schema, etc.) from your Zod schemas, so if that's the only reason you think Ajv is better, then it might be time to take another look at Zod? It really is great, especially if you buy into the "parse, don't validate" principle that it's built around.
link
pier25 1277 days ago
Fastify is excellent. I wish these new full stack frameworks were closer to that.
link