Stop Using Zod!! This is 10x Smaller!

Zod provides type-safe schema validation, but what if there was an equivalent library that could send up to 10x less code to the browser? Check it out.

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Stop Using Zod!! This is 10x Smaller!

(00:00) Intro
(00:13) Welcome
(00:36) Valibot
(00:52) The difference between Zod and Valibot
(01:21) A familiar type-safe syntax
(01:58) Inferring types from schemas
(02:18) Parsing data with schemas
(02:39) Giving credit where it is due
(03:29) Final Verdict on Valibot

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Was this introduction to Valibot helpful? If so, please share. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

#zod #valibot #typescript

[FabianHiller]

Hey Dave, thank you for featuring Valibot on your channel! 🤖

[mikevaleriano]

for frontend, sure! but build sizes mean next to nothing in the backend, plus fastify has integrations with zod for schemas that work perfectly.

[multibinary]

Dave Gray on May 26: "You need ZOD"
Dave Two months Later: "Good bye ZOD"
😂😂... A tiny "meme-shove" from your very much loving follower of your channel, an admirer of ur comprehensive content and professional delivery. you are a true teacher and deserve a billion followers.
If only people stopped watching "learning 'x' in 'y' minutes" videos and started learning from you... Thanks for all the content your creating Buddy.

[Salah-YT]

Your video was truly engaging, even though it's about new technology I'm not familiar with yet. I found it surprisingly amusing and watched it till the end. I must admit, I'm not sure how ZOD works, let alone Valibot, but your content keeps me coming back for more. I look forward to understanding it all one day. Thank you for creating such entertaining and informative videos. Keep up the fantastic work! 🙂

[codernerd]

It's that time of the week again! Stop using X for Y because [insert speed/size] when X works great for years and most people are on high-speed internet 😅

[dopetag]

Thank you, Dave! I should give it a try!

[snivels]

It does make me wonder why Zod isn't modular

[CanRau]

Also started switching first schemas over to valibot especially cause I use most of them on the client as well where bundle Size makes a big difference 🎉 also like the ergonomics

[imam_robani]

would you be willing to make a recoil video for state management?

[ThanHtutZaw]

Hi How can I use zod in frontend and backend MEVN . I deployed both separately in vercel So I can't access zod schema in production . Can I use mono repo for that problem ?

[giannifed]

Is it works with react-hook-form? Thank you.

[EliBates]

Saw this on twitter a while back, definitely a nice improvement. Would love to convert some projects, but needing a resolver for react hook form. Hoping to see it soon! 🎉

[BinaryReader]

Totally, I wish TypeScript would let me to configure 'string', 'number' and 'boolean' native types before use like valibot lets me import specific runtime types. I don't need all the TS type system, c'mon just numbers and strings!!!

Seriously tho, we need better tree shaking. It's entirely possible to tree shake classes and modules with a capible compiler....just right click a class function and select "Find all References", if none are returned, cull it. I don't understand why one would resort to piece meal imports when a capable tool could just tree shake. Surely barrel importing Valibot would be the typical usage, in which been achieved over Zod?

[techs]

Dont care about bundle size of just 20kb extra

[jhaeberli]

I embrace the evolution, but the downsize is in the real world now you need to know at least three different tools only for schema validation: yup, zod, valibot. Luckily they don't ask this types of questions in interviews, yet.

[MichaelCampbell]

Nice overview; I would note though that "1x smaller" is zero, so 10x smaller? (Yes, yes, I know what you mean.)

[darwinmanalo]

I don't even know what Zod is. Is it similar to joi?

[ArcticPrimal]

Dave, how does it fair with react hook form?

[CTILET]

Should i first repeat javascript to learn Typescript?

[AmodeusR]

Considering Valibot is modular, you need to know what you're going to use, becoming quite a bit of a headache to use it, because you're likely not to remember everything you need to import, hence needing to go back and fourth... I don't really like that. A good workaround should happen in the build time removing unnecessary code/functions.