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Supper Club × tRPC With Alex KATT Johansson
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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 ××× Kysely
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