tRPC – Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy
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HN comment orderI'm currently in the process of removing tRPC from our codebase. It's been a nightmare of tight coupling. I've also found that it encourages more junior developers to not think about interfaces / data access patterns (there's a mapping from Prisma straight through to the component). It's fantastic for rapid prototyping but really paints you into a corner if you ever want to decouple the codebase.
I wrote the initial proof of concept for tRPC a little over a year ago (though I'm no longer involved in the project). Seems like there's some confusion about how this works. A more complete description is available here[0] below but I'll put a brief explanation below as well. - It's designed specifically for a full-stack TypeScript app. Your API is implemented as strongly typed server-side functions. - The input type is specified using a schema library like Zod or…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 443
- Total comments
- 273
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-07 | tRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs with TypeScript | rgbrgb | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-04-12 | TRPC – End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy | thinkingkong | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-05-06 | TRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easyFirst breakout | namelosw | 123 | 56 |
| 2023-08-12 | tRPC – Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easyBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | olalonde | 316 | 217 |
| 2025-11-15 | tRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy | edweis | 1 | 0 |