6 alternatives to zod

colinhacks/zod — TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference (44,176 stars, MIT, ui, testing, dev-tools).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 208 licence-cleared components from colinhacks/zod itself.

The alternatives in detail

• open-circle/valibot
  The modular and type safe schema library for validating structural data 🤖
  score 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 9,052 stars · 1,492 components · search them
• oudwins/zog
  Go with Zod inspired simple schema validation
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 1,220 stars · 51 components · search them
• jquense/yup
  Dead simple Object schema validation
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 23,651 stars · 29 components · search them
• robintail/express-zod-api
  A Typescript framework to help you get an API server up and running with I/O schema validation and custom middlewares in minutes.
  score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 839 stars · 74 components · search them
• gluon-lang/gluon
  A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust.
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 3,460 stars · 123 components · search them
• vimeo/psalm
  A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 5,908 stars · 722 components · search them

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