Lessons from stitching GraphQL services with Hasura
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The Importance of Database Constraints in a CMS
Zod lets you define fields in your database with things like whether they're null or optional. That gives you some types that you can use in TypeScript, right? And that, again, is derived from your database. But think about querying the homepage of something like buildjui.com or YouTube. There might not be a description on the homepage, but there's adescription on the detail page. So that means there's a description and database. Neither of them are what is in the database because that's not what defines them. What defines the appropriateness of the shape of the data is what you're querying.
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