Recording date: March 9, 2023

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Maina Wycliffe @mwycliffe_dev

Brought to you by

• AG Grid
• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• All Things TypeScript Newsletter
• General Zod
• Typescript and Zod schemas
• TypeScript type assertion
• Typescript-eslint
• Better linting with TypeScript and ESLint
• Linting in TypeScript using ESLint and Prettier
• Zod vs Yup validation schemas
• Zod, Joi and Yup side by side
• When should you use Zod?
• Fetch API
• TypeScript Decorators
• Type Narrowing in TypeScript
• GitHub Copilot

Timejumps

• 00:28 Welcome back
• 01:43 Guest introduction
• 04:32 Why shouldn't we use assertions?
• 08:31 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:35 Using Zod schemas as the source of truth?
• 13:11 How would you use Zod to validate data?
• 18:51 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 19:50 What are your favorite features about Typescript?
• 27:10 What is type narrowing doing?
• 33:10 What are practices people should avoid with Typescript?
• 35:24 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.