Add a zod schema validator generation

[maelp]

Would be nice if in addition to json type generation, we could have a zod schema validator for those, so that we could validate data before doing a fromJson, etc

[maelp]

is there an easy way to extend buf with a plugin to generate this kind of thing?

[timostamm]

Yep, there's a tutorial for writing plugins. You can simply keep the plugin as a local file in the project (see the example here), or publish it on npmjs.com.

[maelp]

@timostamm thanks! Is there a "base plugin" I could modify/extend which goes deep in the structure of the typescript type generation from proto? I guess it would be a relatively simple modification from such a plugin if it's already somewhere in the codebase?