fastify-zod-validate

A type-safe validation plugin for Fastify 4.x and Zod, arguably the best TypeScript-first validation library.

Install

npm i -S fastify-zod-validate

Features

• Opt-in schema validation for each Fastify route via fastify.withTypeProvider()
• Customize schema validation error when registering the plugin

Assumptions

• Fastify 4.x and Zod 3.x are already installed in your project

Usage

Thefastify-zod-validate plugin decorates the fastify instance with a withTypeProvider function, which can be used to compile and validate the fastify schemas (comprising HTTP body, path parameters, query parameters, headers and more) using the zod library. You can import the plugin using a default import:

import fastifyZodValidate from 'fastify-zod-validate'

• Define your schemas using zod:

import { z } from 'zod'

export const UserBody = z.object({
  username: z.string().min(5).max(10),
  balance: z.number().min(1000),
}).strict()
export type UserBody = z.infer<typeof UserBody>

export const UserPathParams = z.object({
  userID: z.string().min(4).max(4),
}).strict()
export type UserPathParams = z.infer<typeof UserPathParams>

• Define your fastify router with type-safe schema validation built-in:

import { FastifyPluginCallback } from 'fastify'

export const zodValidateRouter: FastifyPluginCallback = (fastify, options, next) => {
  fastify.withTypeProvider().route({
    method: 'POST',
    url: '/user/:userID',
    schema: {
      body: UserBody,
      params: UserPathParams,
    },
    handler: async (request, reply) => {
      // no casting or @ts-ignore required
      const { body, params } = request
      const { userID } = params
  
      await reply.status(200).send({
        data: {
          message: `OK user with ID ${userID}`,
          body,
        },
      })
    }
  })

  next()
}

• Register the plugin and setup your fastify server:

import fastifyZodValidate from 'fastify-zod-validate'
import Fastify from 'fastify'

export async function setupServer() {
  const server = Fastify()

  // register the plugin
  server.register(fastifyZodValidate, {
    // optional custom validation error handler
    handleValidatorError: (error, data) => {
      const validationError = new Error('Unprocessable Entity - Custom Zod Validation Error')

      // @ts-ignore
      validationError.statusCode = 422
      return { error: validationError }
    },
  })

  // register the router
  server.register(zodValidateRouter, { prefix: 'route' })

  await server.ready()
  return server
}

• Start your fastify server:

async function main() {
  const server = await setupServer()
  server.listen({ port: 3000 })
}

main()

• See validation in action:

  The following HTTP request

  {
  curl -0 -X POST http://localhost:3000/route/user/1234 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
  -H "X-User: user" \
  --data-binary @- << EOF
  {
    "username": "invalid, and checked",
    "balance": -1
  }
  EOF
  } | jq '.'

  will be rejected with the following error

  {
    "statusCode": 422,
    "error": "Unprocessable Entity",
    "message": "Unprocessable Entity - Custom Zod Validation Error"
  }
  

We encourage you to take a look at the __tests__ folder for a more complete example.

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🚀 Build and Test package

This package is built using TypeScript, so the source needs to be converted in JavaScript before being usable by the users. This can be achieved by using TypeScript directly:

npm run build

We run tests via Jest:

npm run test

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page. The code is short and tested, so you should feel quite comfortable working on it. If you have any doubt or suggestion, please open an issue.

⚠️ Issues

Chances are the problem you have bumped into have already been discussed and solved in the past. Please take a look at the issues (both the closed ones and the comments to the open ones) before opening a new issue.

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👤 Authors

• Alberto Schiabel
  • Github: @jkomyno
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📝 License

Built with ❤️ by Alberto Schiabel.
This project is MIT licensed.