Type-Safe APIs with Drizzle and Zod

If you've ever spent hours debugging a undefined is not an object error that traced back to a database schema mismatch, this post is for you.

The Problem

Most ORM-based stacks have a type gap between the database and the application layer...

const users = pgTable('users', {
  id: uuid('id').primaryKey().defaultRandom(),
  email: varchar('email', { length: 255 }).notNull(),
});