Roadmap for v0.4.0 & v0.5.0

[ymc9]

Here's the current road map for the next two minor versions.

v0.4.0

• Field validation
  Allows attaching validation rules at field level, executed on both client and server sides.
• Merging @zenstackhq/internal and @zenstackhq/runtime npm packages to one
  Simplifies dependency management and update.
• Ability to disable data fetching
  Useful for scenarios like when query parameters haven't been fully constructed yet.
• Sample project using IronSession for authentication

v0.5.0

• Utility functions for doing various types of value checking in policy expressions
  E.g., contains, regex, etc.
• Support for "post-update" policy check
  For validating entities after update happens.
• Support for calling policy checks when writing backend code
• Telemetry
  For easier usage analytics and prioritization.
• Improved VSCode extension
  E.g., auto-completion when accessing members of a field.
• Better overall schema checking
  More complete checking and better error reporting.
• Solid CI/CD process

[ymc9]

Regarding field validation, the current plan is to integrate zod. Validations are expressed as field-level attributes and converted to zod schema, which is checked both on the client side (before create/update hooks are executed) and on the server side.

First batch of validation attributes to add are:

string:

• @length
• @regex
• @startsWith
• @endsWith
• @email
• @url

number:

• @gt
• @gte
• @lt
• @lte

Sample usage:

model User {
    id String @id
    handle String @regex("^[0-9a-zA-Z]{4,16}$")
    email String @email @endsWith("@myorg.com")
    profileImage String? @url
    age Int @gt(0)
}