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How HN took it
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Idea: 2 for, 6 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, efficient validation approach
From 1 comment
Neat. I like the fresh take on validation. It’s not necessarily unique, but it may be cleaner / more efficient than previous attempts. The mixing of backend processing and the…
mlmilleratmit on HN
Good use of OpenAPI generation
From 1 comment
Happy to see more projects embrace OpenAPI.
TheFragenTaken on HN
Objections
Calling it type-safe is misleading; it is runtime validation, not type safety
From 3 comments
Type Safety != Runtime Type Validation. Something being Type Safe means that I, the programmer, am Safe from making type mistakes while developing and maintaining the software.…
stagas on HNIt's not pedantry, you're using the term wrong. I understand why it can be confusing if you are just using JavaScript and you haven't had the experience of type-safe codebases.…
stagas on HNFor this software to be appealing it would need to really be type-safe, meaning you'd need to use TypeScript. Type-safe means I can change an interface in project B and project A…
stagas on HN
TypeScript would be a better approach
From 3 comments
We tried for years to do things like this, and in the end an approach using typescript is way, way better than anything else I've seen attempted. In my latest project[1], we set…
tsergiu on HNNice, this should help all zero businesses building APIs in JS /s Start using TS.
flashback2199 on HNI can definitely comprehend it. What I can't comprehend is wanting types and building a custom special snowflake library instead of using the right tool "I needed a screwdriver,…
flashback2199 on HN
Documentation error in the README longitude range
From 1 comment
I spotted a bug in the README's first example: ``` @param {number {-90,90}} coords.lng Longitude ``` The range for longitude is incorrect, and only covers half the globe. How and…
mkl on HN
Requests
Add TypeScript support
From 2 comments
That’s good feedback! We can probably do both; if you think it’s cool would you be interested in contributing to TypeScript support to circle the square?
keithwhor on HNOur approach doesn’t preclude TypeScript! In fact I think it would integrate well with it. If you’re interested in a TS approach could you email me at keith@instant.dev ?
keithwhor on HN
Content negotiation and header-based routing
From 2 comments
Neat! Does this framework have any tools for content negotiation? I get that you could do this in the handlers themselves, but in my experience different representations are…
mstade on HNHere's a simple use case: human friendly and machine friendly representations at the same path. For example, let's say I have an api at `/weather` which when requested with the…
mstade on HN
Questions
How and when are types checked, only at runtime?
From 1 comment
I spotted a bug in the README's first example: ``` @param {number {-90,90}} coords.lng Longitude ``` The range for longitude is incorrect, and only covers half the globe. How and…
mkl on HN
Performance and scalability in production?
From 1 comment
Neat. I like the fresh take on validation. It’s not necessarily unique, but it may be cleaner / more efficient than previous attempts. The mixing of backend processing and the…
mlmilleratmit on HN
Alternatives named
Zod
From 1 comment
Zod[1] is probably the closest 1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod 1: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
Loeffelmann on HN
FastAPI
From 1 comment
Both the name and intent seem highly inspired from FastAPI!
whinvik on HN
TypeScript
From 1 comment
We tried for years to do things like this, and in the end an approach using typescript is way, way better than anything else I've seen attempted. In my latest project[1], we set…
tsergiu on HN
Swagger/OpenAPI tooling
From 1 comment
> But OpenAPI is the “gold standard” machine readable API specification format I remember when that would have been WSDL, with something like SoapUI - where you'd feed in the…
KronisLV on HN