Request Validation — Roadmap Step & Resources
Validating and sanitizing incoming data with Joi or express-validator
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: MEAN Stack
Before this step
Study resources
- express-validator (Article) — The official documentation for express-validator, the standard request validation middleware for Express.
- Validation in Spring Boot (Article) — Baeldung's guide to Bean Validation annotations for validating incoming requests.
- Spring Boot Request Validation Explained (Video) — Covers using @Valid with a DTO to enforce input validation automatically.
- Zod Documentation (Article) — Official documentation for Zod, the modern TypeScript-first schema validation library for APIs.
- Zod Tutorial - Complete Crash Course (Video) — Web Dev Simplified covers schema validation, parsing request bodies, and handling error formats with Zod.
Part of
- Express.js — section
- MEAN Stack roadmap — the full learning path