next-better-api ⚡️🔵

Opinionated TypeScript-first helpers for building better NextJS APIs, powered by Zod.

At a glance:

• 🙅‍♀️ Hands-off Typescript type inference based on your Zod validation schemas for query params, request body, and your API response
• ✨ Type inference helpers to use with react-query, fetch, and other client-side utilities
• 🔌 Minimal and composable — bring your own request context, use existing middleware, etc
• ☁ No additional dependencies (besides zod and next as peerDependencies, of course)

import { z } from 'zod';
import { endpoint, asHandler } from 'next-better-api';

const getUser = endpoint(
  {
    method: 'get',
    querySchema: z.object({
      id: z.string(),
    }),
    responseSchema: z.object({
      user: z.object({
        id: z.string(),
        name: z.string(),
        email: z.string(),
        active: z.boolean(),
      }),
    }),
  },
  async ({ query }) => {
    const user = await getUser(query.id);

    return {
      status: 200,
      body: {
        user,
      },
    };
  }
);

export default asHandler([getUser]);

Installation:

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next-better-api requires zod for schema validation. You can install both libraries with yarn or npm on your existing NextJS project:

$ yarn add zod next-better-api

// OR

$ npm i -S zod next-better-api

And import it from your API definitions:

import { endpoint, asHandler } from 'next-better-api';
import { z } from 'zod'; // If you are defining schemas for your endpoints

Now simply define individual endpoints for each HTTP method in your existing API files, and export your endpoints as a single NextApiHandler:

// pages/api/users.ts
const getUsers = endpoint(
  {
    method: 'get',
  },
  async () => {
    const users = await getUsersFromDb();

    return {
      status: 200,
      body: {
        users,
      },
    };
  }
);

export default asHandler([getUsers]);

API Reference

See DOCS.md

For an example setup, check out my starter template/example.

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Stuff

See license information under LICENSE.md.

Contributions are super welcome - in the form of bug reports, suggestions, or better yet, pull requests!