Supper Club × tRPC With Alex KATT Johansson

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Scott talks with Alex Johansson about his work on tRPC, how it compares to other tools like GraphQL, and what's next for tRPC?

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Show Notes

• 00:37 Welcome
• 01:56 Guest introduction
• @Alexdotjs on Twitter
• Alex on GitHub
• Katt.dev
• tRPC.io
• 02:47 What is tRPC?
• 06:56 How does type safety work?
• 10:38 Sponsor: Polypane
• 13:20 What is Zod?
• 17:39 How does tRPC relate to GraphQL?
• 23:47 Sponsor: FireHydrant
• 25:25 What about a data loader?
• 29:04 React or NextJS adapters
• 30:41 How does it feel when people start building off your project?
• 33:58 Sponsor: Kontent by Kentico
• 37:34 What's next for tRPC?
• 42:42 How is error handling done?
• 48:43 Supper Club questions
• 54:42 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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