What problem does it solve?
Zod 4 provides a robust, declarative way to validate data shapes in TypeScript applications, enabling runtime validation and safer type-safety across APIs, forms, and data pipelines.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Migration guidance from Zod 3 to Zod 4 with updated API usage and error handling patterns.
- Schema composition for primitives, objects, arrays, enums, and unions to enable precise runtime validation and type inference.
- Parsing and validation workflows for common scenarios such as form validation, API payload checks, and data pipelines.
Quick Start
Install the zod library in your project (npm install zod or yarn add zod).
Create a simple schema using z.object to validate a basic payload, then run parse or safeParse and handle the result.
Example: define a user payload schema and validate an input object, handling errors if validation fails.