Ecosystem

Note — To avoid bloat and confusion, the Ecosystem section has been wiped clean with the release of Zod 4. If you've updated your library to work with Zod 4, please submit a PR to add it back in. For libraries that work with Zod 3, refer to v3.zod.dev.

There are a growing number of tools that are built atop or support Zod natively! If you've built a tool or library on top of Zod, let me know on Twitter or start a Discussion. I'll add it below and tweet it out.

Resources

API Libraries

Name	Stars	Description
`tRPC`	⭐️ 38470	Build end-to-end typesafe APIs without GraphQL.
`oRPC`	⭐️ 3353	Typesafe APIs Made Simple
`nestjs-zod`	⭐️ 817	Integrate nestjs and zod. Create nestjs DTOs using zod, serialize with zod, and generate OpenAPI documentation from zod schemas
`Express Zod API`	⭐️ 762	Build Express-based API with I/O validation and middlewares, OpenAPI docs and type-safe client.
`Zod Sockets`	⭐️ 97	Socket.IO solution with I/O validation, an AsyncAPI generator, and a type-safe events map.
`GQLoom`	⭐️ 65	Weave GraphQL schema and resolvers using Zod.
`Zod JSON-RPC`	⭐️ 14	Type-safe JSON-RPC 2.0 client/server library using Zod.

Form Integrations

Name	Stars	Description
`Superforms`	⭐️ 2623	Making SvelteKit forms a pleasure to use!
`conform`	⭐️ 2423	A type-safe form validation library utilizing web fundamentals to progressively enhance HTML Forms with full support for server frameworks like Remix and Next.js.
`zod-validation-error`	⭐️ 969	Generate user-friendly error messages from ZodError instances.
`regle`	⭐️ 271	Headless form validation library for Vue.js.
`svelte-jsonschema-form`	⭐️ 98	Svelte 5 library for creating forms based on JSON schema.

Zod to X

Name	Stars	Description
`prisma-zod-generator`	⭐️ 671	Generate Zod schemas from Prisma schema with full ZodObject method support
`zod-openapi`	⭐️ 527	Use Zod Schemas to create OpenAPI v3.x documentation
`zod2md`	⭐️ 116	Generate Markdown docs from Zod schemas
`fastify-zod-openapi`	⭐️ 107	Fastify type provider, validation, serialization and @fastify/swagger support for Zod schemas
`@traversable/zod`	⭐️ 38	Build your own "Zod to x" library, or pick one of 25+ off-the-shelf transformers

X to Zod

Name	Stars	Description
`orval`	⭐️ 4584	Generate Zod schemas from OpenAPI schemas
`Hey API`	⭐️ 3188	The OpenAPI to TypeScript codegen. Generate clients, SDKs, validators, and more.
`kubb`	⭐️ 1342	The ultimate toolkit for working with APIs.
`Prisma Zod Generator`	⭐️ 671	Generates Zod schemas with input/result/pure variants, minimal/full/custom, selective emit/filtering, single/multi-file output, @zod rules, relation depth guards.
`valype`	⭐️ 56	Typescript's type definition to runtime validator (including zod).
`DRZL`	⭐️ 44	Drizzle ORM toolkit that can generate Zod validators from schema(s), plus typed services and strongly typed routers (oRPC/tRPC/etc).

Mocking Libraries

Name	Stars	Description
`zod-schema-faker`	⭐️ 79	Generate mock data from zod schemas. Powered by @faker-js/faker and randexp.js.
`zocker`	⭐️ 61	Generates valid, semantically meaningful data for your Zod schemas.
`@traversable/zod-test`	⭐️ 38	Random zod schema generator built for fuzz testing; includes generators for both valid and invalid data

Powered by Zod

Name	Stars	Description
`Composable Functions`	⭐️ 725	Types and functions to make composition easy and safe.
`zod-config`	⭐️ 113	Load configurations across multiple sources with flexible adapters, ensuring type safety with Zod.
`zod-xlsx`	⭐️ 45	A xlsx based resource validator using Zod schemas for data imports and more

Zod Utilities

Name	Stars	Description
`zod-playground`	⭐️ 93	Interactive playground for testing and exploring Zod and Zod mini schemas in real-time.
`eslint-plugin-import-zod`	⭐️ 11	ESLint plugin to enforce namespace imports for Zod.

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