Stop Writing Zod Schemas by Hand: What I Learned After 40 API Endpoints
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* I have a confession to make. I spent three hours debugging a Zod schema on a Friday night. Not because the validation was complex. Not because the business logic was tricky. Because the backend team renamed avatar to avatar_url in a deeply nested object. And I missed it. Three hours. For a single field name change. If you work with TypeScript and APIs, you know the drill. You have: Your TypeScript types Your Zod schemas for runtime validation The actual JSON data from your API Thr