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tserial

v1.1.2

Published

Runtime validation for TypeScript type expressions

Downloads

98

Readme

tserial

Runtime deserialization for TypeScript interfaces and type aliases

Table of Contents

Overview

Read the blog post for a high level summary

TypeScript's structural typing system offers a powerful way to represent the shape of data. Data delivered across systems is, by default, not validated. A developer version can use type assertions to "cast" untrusted input to the expected type, but this is often done in an insecure way. Developers will usually write code that validates input data and coerces it to the right type.

tserial automates this process and offers a way to securely deserialize data at runtime.

Design Goals

  • Should use plain TypeScript expressions as the source of truth (no DSLs or codecs)
  • Should define a subset of type expressions that represent serializable data. Expressions involving functions (classes, function declarations and expressions, etc) will not be permitted.
  • Should offer consumers a way to opt-in to interfaces/type aliases they would like to be validated at runtime
  • Should generate a single file with a deserialization routine
  • Should have no runtime dependencies
  • Should have minimal build time dependencies
  • Deserialization routine should use composable assertions and type guards which incrementally prove adherence to a type expression via narrowing
    • Hedges against "stale" output since compiler will usually raise errors when narrowing produces an incomplete type
  • Deserialization routine must produce granular error data. If data isn't valid, structured error data should be returned to the caller
  • Node.js, browser, and deno support

Installation

npm install tserial --save-dev

yarn add tserial --dev

Usage

The CLI and Node API use the same underlying modules. Both generate file content. The CLI takes care of writing the file to the file system, while the Node API just returns string content.

In either mode, it's highly recommended to use a formatter like prettier to format the generated code. No attempt has been made to autogenerate well-formatted code.

CLI

# all options
tserial --help

# minimal command, use tsconfig.json at project root and default tag identifier
tserial --out ./path/to/generated_file.ts

# custom tsconfig
tserial --out ./path/to/generated_file.ts --tsconfig some-custom-tsconfig.json

# custom tag name (defaults to serializable)
# custom tsconfig
tserial --out ./path/to/generated_file.ts --tag myCustomTag

# deno imports
tserial --out ./path/to/generated_file.ts --deno

Node API

Check out render-content in renderer tests for an example of how the test suite calls the Node API.

Direct use of the Node API will allow greater flexibility within existing build systems, but the CLI may be faster to start with.