Zod everywhere!

[azan-n]

I've primarily used Zod on front-end projects with React to validate fields and show error messages on the client. I have also used Zod for schema validations on small node based applications. However, larger server applications that I have worked with have been written in other languages like Go or C# given that these languages have more performant runtimes compared to Node/Bun.

This might be the wrong way to look at the problem but if we could access Zod functions using an FFI, or similar interface in all major runtimes/languages, this would mean that I could write a front-end that uses the same validations as the ones I use on a Node server, Go server, etc.

This mostly arrives from having the same validation logic/semantics across libraries and projects. This would also allow publishing an organization-wide method of validating something like a UUID or an email string, regardless of what a project is written in.

I am eager to hear how other people think about this and if they have encountered something similar.

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

There is no information in the provided sources about accessing Zod functions via FFI or using Zod natively in runtimes or languages other than JavaScript/TypeScript (such as Go or C#) (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7). Zod is documented as a TypeScript-first validation library for defining and validating schemas in JavaScript and TypeScript environments (3), (5). No cross-language FFI or official bindings for other languages are mentioned.

📚 Sources:

1. Zod v4 LLMs-Full
2. Zod v4 LLMs-Full
3. Zod
4. Defining schemas
5. Defining schemas
6. Dynamic validation based on user-generated data
7. SetValue during schema validation

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[marcomuser]

What you are looking for is a language agnostic schema spec. I would recommend looking into JSON Schema for this purpose.

[azan-n]

That makes sense. What I'll need is also a cross-platform validator for JSON Schema. I'll start looking into it.