Super lightweight input validation library

This is a lightweight library for user input validation. Main focus is on speed and flexibility of the validation rules.

By default getInputErrors and getSchemaErrors automatically detects and chooses the most performant checking method for your rule set.

If your rule set and/or schema are very large or complex, you may want to directly use getInputErrorsSync/getSchemaErrorsSync or getInputErrorsAsync/getSchemaErrorsAsync for improved performance on synchronous and asynchronous rule sets respectively.

Use synchronous versions of the functions for better performance if you don't need to support asynchronous checks on your inputs.

Main functionality

Write your own custom validators to exactly match your use case using a simple object:

const my_rules = {
  "Input must be more than 40": (i) => i > 40,
  "Input must be divisible by 10": (i) => !(i % 10)
}
console.log(getInputErrors(50, my_rules)); // []
console.log(getInputErrors(11, my_rules)); // ["Input must be more than 40", "Input must be divisible by 10"]
console.log(getInputErrors(30, my_rules)) // ["Input must be more than 40"]

Installing

bun add ivl // bun.js
yarn add ivl // yarn
npm install ivl // npm
pnpm install ivl // pnpm

deno coming soon

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Usage examples

Frontend example

index.ts

import { getInputErrors } from 'ivl';
import type { RULES } from 'ivl';
import { matchesRegex, minLength, maxLength, isType } from 'ivl/helpers';

// This pattern is also exportable from 'ivl/patterns'
const EMAIL_PATTERN = /^[\w.%+-]+@[\w.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{1,}$/;

const EMAIL_REQUIREMENTS: RULES = {
  "Must be string": isType('string'),
  "Must be less then 100 characters": maxLength(100),
  "Not a valid email address": matchesRegex(EMAIL_PATTERN),
  "That email is already in use": async (i) => {
    // Fetch info from whatever backend and make a decision based on that asynchronously
    const email_in_use = await fetch(`https://mybackend/email-exists/${i}`)
    return !email_in_use // We will return true if the email is not already taken
  }
};

const PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS: RULES = {
  "Must be string": isType('string'),
  "Must be at least 8 characters": minLength(8),
  "Must contain at least one upper case character": matchesRegex(/[A-Z]/),
  "Must contain at least one lower case character": matchesRegex(/[a-z]/),
};

// You can of course expand on your existing rules: 
const STRONG_PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS: RULES = {
  ...PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS,
  "Must contain at least one digit": matchesRegex(/\d/),
  "Must contain at least one symbol": matchesRegex(/[^\w\s]/),
};

const email_value = "some-value";
const pw_value = "Passesweakpw";

const email_errors = getInputErrors(email_value, EMAIL_REQUIREMENTS);
const pw_errors = getInputErrors(pw_value, PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS);
const strong_pw_errors = getInputErrors(pw_value, STRONG_PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS);

console.log({email_errors, pw_errors, strong_pw_errors});

Backend example with Hono & Bun.js

rules.ts

import { isType, minLength, maxLength, matchesRegex } from 'ivl/helpers';
import { EMAIL_PATTERN } from 'ivl/patterns';
import type { SCHEMA } from 'ivl';
import { checkValueInDatabase } from 'my-database-controller';

const existsInDatabase = (key: string, table: string, exists: boolean = true): RULE =>
  async (value) =>
    exists != !(await checkValueInDatabase(value as string, key, table)).length

const EMAIL_REQUIREMENTS = {
  "Must be string": isType('string'),
  "Must be less then 100 characters": maxLength(100),
  "Not a valid email address": matchesRegex(EMAIL_PATTERN),
};

const PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS = {
  "Must be string": isType('string'),
  "Must be at least 8 characters": minLength(8),
  "Must contain at least one upper case character": matchesRegex(/[A-Z]/),
  "Must contain at least one lower case character": matchesRegex(/[a-z]/),
  "Must contain at least one digit": matchesRegex(/\d/),
  "Must contain at least one symbol": matchesRegex(/[^\w\s]/),
};

export const LOGIN_SCHEMA: SCHEMA =  {
  email: EMAIL_REQUIREMENTS,
  password: PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS
};

export const REGISTER_SCHEMA: SCHEMA = {
  // We can pass in an empty rule set to allow any value
  // Or we can omit the argument entirely and set the strict flag to false when checking the schema
  organization_name: {}
  email: {
    ...EMAIL_REQUIREMENTS,
    "Email already registered": existsInDatabase('email','users', false)
  },
  password: PASSWORD_REQUIREMENTS
};

// Registering via invitation needs all the same values except organization name
// inherit parts of rule sets, as opposed to extending the rule set as show in the
// frontend example
export const INVITE_REGISTER_SCHEMA = (({ organization_name, ...invite_schema }) => invite_schema)(REGISTRATION_SCHEMA)

export const INVITATION_PARAM: SCHEMA = {
  invitation_code: {
    "Not a valid invitation": existsInDatabase('code', 'invitation')
  }
};

index.ts

import { Hono, ValidationTargets } from 'hono';
import { validator } from 'hono/validator';
import { getSchemaErrors } from 'ivl';
import { LOGIN_SCHEMA, REGISTER_SCHEMA, INVITE_REGISTER_SCHEMA, INVITATION_PARAM } from './rules.ts';

// Wrapper for hono validator middleware
export const validate = (input_type: keyof ValidationTargets, schema: SCHEMA) =>
  validator(input_type, async (value: CHECKABLE_OBJECT) => {
    const errors = await getSchemaErrors(value, schema, { strict: true });
    if (Object.values(errors).filter((e) => e.length).length) {
      throw new HTTPException(400, {
        message: JSON.stringify(errors),
      });
    }
    return value;
  })

const app = new Hono();

app.post('/#',
  validate('json', LOGIN_SCHEMA),
  (c) => c.text("Success"));

app.all('/logout', (c) => c.text("Success"));

app.put('/register', 
  validate('json', REGISTER_SCHEMA),
  (c) => c.text("Success"));

// This first validates the invitation parameter against our database
// And then validates the body of the request
app.put('/register/:invitation_code',
  validate('param', INVITATION_PARAM),
  validate('json', INVITE_REGISTER_SCHEMA ),
  (c)=> c.text("Success"));

export default app;