Vest Documentation

Vest is a validation framework that looks and feels like a unit testing framework. It is designed to be easy to learn, highly maintainable, and framework-agnostic.

Write your validations as if they were unit tests, and run them in your app.

import { create, test, enforce } from 'vest';
const suite = create(data => {
  test('username', 'Username is required', () => {
    enforce(data.username).isNotBlank();
  });
  test('username', 'Username must be at least 3 chars', () => {
    enforce(data.username).longerThanOrEquals(3);
  });
  test('username', 'Username already taken', async () => {
    await doesUserExist(data.username);
  });
});
const result = await suite.run(formData);

Writing form validations can be messy. Vest cleans it up by separating validation logic from feature logic and providing a familiar, powerful syntax.

Vest adopts the syntax and style of unit testing frameworks (Mocha, Jest). If you've written a test, you already know Vest.

React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or Vanilla JS - Vest works everywhere. It doesn't depend on your UI library.

Vest is written in TypeScript and provides first-class type support, including typed suites and results.

Vest implements the Standard Schema spec, making it a drop-in replacement for Zod or Yup in libraries like React Hook Form.

Built-in support for server-side validation and state hydration (runStatic, SuiteSerializer), enabling seamless full-stack validation flows.

Create custom rules, compose existing ones, or use the optional schema validation (n4s) to enforce data structure.

npm i vest

Check out the Vest Documentation for guides, API references, and examples.

• React
• Vue
• Svelte
• Vanilla

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.