I Got Tired of Repeating Validation Logic in Every Node.js Project — So I Built Zero Validation

How I Published My Own Validation Package on npm As developers, we've all done this: if ( ! email ) { throw new Error ( " Email is required " ); } if ( typeof email !== " string " ) { throw new Error ( " Email must be a string " ); } if ( ! email . includes ( " @ " )) { throw new Error ( " Invalid email " ); } Now imagine doing this for: User Registration Login APIs Product Creation Payment Requests Admin Panels Microservices The validation code starts growing faster than the actual business logic. The Problem In many Node.js projects, validation ends up being: Repetitive Hard to maintain Inconsistent across APIs Difficult to scale Every endpoint contains similar checks: if ( ! name ) ... if ( ! email ) ... if ( ! password ) ... if ( password . length < 8 ) ... As projects grow, these validations become scattered throughout the codebase. Existing Solutions There are already some excellent validation libraries available: Zod Joi Yup Express Validator I've used many of them and they're great. But for some smaller projects and APIs, I wanted something: Lightweight Easy to understand Minimal setup Zero configuration TypeScript friendly That's what led me to build Zero Validation . Introducing Zero Validation Zero Validation is a lightweight schema validation package for Node.js and TypeScript applications. The goal is simple: Define your validation schema once and validate data consistently everywhere. Installation npm install zero-validation Basic Example import { z } from " zero-validation " ; const userSchema = z . object ({ name : z . string (), email : z . email (), age : z . number (), }); const result = userSchema . parse ({ name : " John " , email : " john@example.com " , age : 25 , }); console . log ( result ); Handling Validation Errors const result = userSchema . safeParse ( data ); if ( ! result . success ) { console . log ( result . errors ); } Instead of crashing your application, you can safely inspect validation errors and return meaningful API responses