Node Congress

Node Congress 2023

TRPC is a tool that simplifies API development by allowing you to call functions in the backend and have the type data inferred into the frontend without code generation. It provides type safety and auto completion when querying databases using Prisma. TRPC can be used with various frontend frameworks and has features like automatic batching and middlewares. It can be shared between repositories using a monorepo or by publishing the types as an npm package. TRPC is easy to set up compared to gRPC and provides built-in input and output validation.

How, why and how to use tRPC by the creator of it

tRPC - Move Fast and Break Nothing

Alexander Johansson

React Advanced

React Advanced 2021

Alex introduces tRPC, a toolkit for making end-to-end type-safe APIs easily, with auto-completion of API endpoints and inferred data from backend to frontend. tRPC works the same way in React Native and can be adopted incrementally. The example showcases backend communication with a database using queries and validators, with types inferred to the frontend and data retrieval done using Prisma ORM.

Why are we devs so obsessed with decoupling things that are coupled nature? tRPC is a library that replaces the need for GraphQL or REST for internal APIs. When using it, you simply write backend functions whose input and output shapes are instantly inferred in your frontend without any code generation; making writing API schemas a thing of the past. It's lightweight, not tied to React, HTTP-cacheable, and can be incrementally adopted. In this talk, I'll give a glimpse of the DX you can get from tRPC and how (and why) to get started.

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