TypeSpec is a language for defining cloud API shapes and generating OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and client/server code from a single source of truth. It functions as a protocol-agnostic API designer that models REST, gRPC, and other API protocols using a unified, extensible syntax, with a decorator-based metadata system for attaching metadata, validation rules, and lifecycle visibility to API models and operations. The compiler produces OpenAPI 3.0 specifications and other artifacts, and the tool supports declaring API versions and tracking changes to models, properties, and operations across releases.
The language distinguishes itself through a structural type system with spread and inheritance, template-parameterized type composition, and a scalar type system with constructors that define primitive types with factory methods and encoding rules. It features resource-oriented route derivation that automatically generates RESTful URL paths and CRUD operations from resource models, and multi-protocol code generation that compiles a single definition into multiple output formats through extensible emitter plugins. Versioned API evolution tracking records changes to models, properties, and operations across API versions using decorators that track additions, removals, renames, and type changes.
The broader capability surface covers HTTP API routing and semantics, data model validation and constraints, custom API code generation through custom emitters and decorators, and authentication scheme composition that combines multiple methods at service or operation level. The language supports defining structured data models, scalars, enums, unions, arrays, and values with inheritance, composition, constraints, and validation rules, along with capabilities for attaching descriptive metadata to API elements and formatting documentation with Markdown.
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Arktype is a TypeScript runtime validation library and schema orchestrator. It synchronizes TypeScript types with runtime data validation, allowing users to define type-safe schemas that ensure unknown data adheres to specific structures during application execution. The project distinguishes itself by using set-theory type analysis to determine intersections and subtype compatibility, alongside JIT-compiled validation functions for optimized performance. It supports advanced type modeling through branded type constraints, recursive alias resolution, and the ability to generate runtime valida
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