In this supper club episode of Syntax, Scott talks with Alex Johansson about his work on tRPC, how it compares to other tools like GraphQL, and what’s next for tRPC?

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Show Notes

• 00:37 Welcome
• 01:56 Guest introduction
• @Alexdotjs on Twitter

Alex on GitHub

Katt.dev

tRPC.io

02:47 What is tRPC?

06:56 How does type safety work?

10:38 Sponsor: Polypane

13:20 What is Zod?

17:39 How does tRPC relate to GraphQL?

23:47 Sponsor: FireHydrant

25:25 What about a data loader?

29:04 React or NextJS adapters

30:41 How does it feel when people start building off your project?

33:58 Sponsor: Kontent by Kentico

37:34 What’s next for tRPC?

42:42 How is error handling done?

48:43 Supper Club questions

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