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Dev tools · January 29, 2023

ts-rest

Simplify E2E type-safety for your Typescript REST APIs

ts-rest launched on January 29, 2023 with 9 votes, #1,438 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

Experience seamless, end-to-end type safety for your REST APIs with ts-rest! Whether you're working with a TypeScript server or need to add type safety to an existing non-TypeScript REST API, ts-rest is the solution you've been looking for.

A seriously tiny type-safe wrapper around existing, battle-tested, established tech.

Define an API contact, allowing you to share your API contract between client and server, or even publish it for a third party to consume. We support any Typescript validation library that supports Standard Schema , or if you want you can use plain TS types and get no runtime validation. We support Nest, Next.js, Express, Fastify and more - Our server implementation allows you to guarentee your backend stays in sync with your API contract. Our @ts-rest/core package provides a super light-weight fetch based client - We remain close to HTTP fundamentals, so we always return a status code, and body. We all work full time, so we tend to have non overlapping schedules, which normally means at…from ts-rest.com

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