[graftak]

I don’t really like Zod at all, it has very finicky and verbose types/generic params and it’s object generic won’t allow you to pass a data type, but instead you must pass zods own schema types as properties which are very messy and unintuitive.

Another annoyance is that the type of validation errors varies depending on what kind of schema you’re checking against. This makes it unpredictable to handle errors and there’s always too many edge cases.

Lots of room for improvement.

[johnmorrison]

I don't disagree (not that I feel the same level of annoyance, on balance I love Zod for the time it saves me) but what would you recommend as an alternative?

The new valibot.dev looks cool but I haven't tried it yet.

[graftak]

Just took a quick glance at the source[0] and the generic type for an object schema is a record of other schemas too, similar to Zod. At least that irk won't be solved by this and for me at least it’t the biggest one because it makes typing a function with generic data that includes a schema that acts upon it unnecessarily difficult.

[0] https://github.com/fabian-hiller/valibot/blob/e6c53c8a4b0033...