What problem does it solve?
Zod v4 reference centralizes up-to-date guidance for authoring, validating, and transforming TypeScript/JavaScript data using Zod schemas, and it helps developers avoid common pitfalls and migration issues from v3 to v4.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Migration Guidance: Highlights breaking changes (records with enum keys, unified error customization, defaults behavior, ZodError.issues) and recommended replacements.
- Validation Patterns: Explains parse vs safeParse, coercion helpers, optional/nullable/nullish semantics, discriminated unions, refinements, transforms, and preprocess flows.
- Bundle Considerations: Documents zod/mini differences for client bundles and which APIs are included or omitted.
- Practical Examples: Shows common patterns for form validation, environment variable schemas, adapter functions for API responses, and error handling best practices.
Quick Start
Provide Zod v4 schema examples, migration notes from v3, and a validated schema for API input including parse and safeParse usage.