Theo's Typesafe Cult•2y ago

tRPC and existing api

Hello, I have external API that I use on my project. I need to hide my api key so I need to create api routes as wrapper (to run serverside). Could I just use trpc for it instead of the normal api route way on nextjs? So on trpc get external api and return result and client fetches from trpc

7 Replies

Samathingamajig•2y ago

yes

cje•2y ago

thats an excellent use case for trpc

rocawear•2y ago

Is there any examples for it, I am thinking about the typing. Do I need to use zod for input and output validation to get typings work correctly? So on my procedure I use axios to fetch my api and then its untyped. Then I parse it to get typings or somehow type output. Is this correct idea?

Samathingamajig•2y ago

that idea is good what does axios offer for this?

rocawear•2y ago

https://trpc.io/docs/output-validation this seems to be the way. Axios to fetch data instead of default fetch

Output Validation | tRPC

tRPC gives you automatic type-safety of outputs without the need of adding a validator; however, it can be useful at times to strictly define the output type in order to prevent sensitive data of being leaked.

Samathingamajig•2y ago

yeah i get that you're using axios instead of fetch, but im wondering why. i haven't used axios much but i havent seen anything it offers that fetch doesn't, cuz it used to just be a convenient wrapper around XMLHttpRequest before fetch came into existence the only thing i know of is that you can get percentage updates on huge file download/uploads i think

rocawear•2y ago

If somebody is also interested I managed to do it like this and using it on client with types:

import { z } from "zod";
import axios from "axios";

import { router, publicProcedure } from "../trpc";

export const productsRouter = router({
  all: publicProcedure
    .output(
      z.array(
        z.object({
          id: z.number(),
          title: z.string(),
          price: z.number(),
          description: z.string(),
          category: z.string(),
          image: z.string(),
          rating: z.object({
            rate: z.number(),
            count: z.number(),
          }),
        })
      )
    )
    .query(async () => {
      const { data } = await axios.get("https://fakestoreapi.com/products");
      return data;
    }),
});

import { z } from "zod";
import axios from "axios";

import { router, publicProcedure } from "../trpc";

export const productsRouter = router({
  all: publicProcedure
    .output(
      z.array(
        z.object({
          id: z.number(),
          title: z.string(),
          price: z.number(),
          description: z.string(),
          category: z.string(),
          image: z.string(),
          rating: z.object({
            rate: z.number(),
            count: z.number(),
          }),
        })
      )
    )
    .query(async () => {
      const { data } = await axios.get("https://fakestoreapi.com/products");
      return data;
    }),
});

  const { data: products, isLoading, isError } = trpc.products.all.useQuery();

  const { data: products, isLoading, isError } = trpc.products.all.useQuery();

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