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Building Full-Stack TypeScript Applications Using tRPC
Enabling typesafe integrations between frontend and backend, with Next and Express adapters
When building a full-stack application, the chances are you either reach for REST or GraphQL to provide API capabilities to your frontend. tRPC is seeking to change that, or at least provide an alternative, by adding the benefit of type sharing between the client and server.
Intrigued? I was too when I saw tRPC appear in my Twitter feed, so I decided to take a closer look. In this article, we’ll take a look at what tRPC offers, and how it can ease API development for your frontend applications.
What Is tRPC?
In a nutshell, tRPC is a framework for building typesafe APIs using TypeScript. As opposed to traditional APIs, such as REST and GraphQL, there are no API schemas in tRPC. Instead, the types you define in your backend API are accessible on the client-side.
That might sound a little strange at first, but if you consider that tRPC’s main use case is providing APIs in a full-stack application, it actually makes a lot of sense.
Schemas are essential when it comes to HTTP calls between services, in order to understand the contract between the client and server…
