Build a full-stack TypeScript app using tRPC and React

The article provides an overview of various API architectural styles, focusing particularly on tRPC, a remote procedure call framework designed for TypeScript and JavaScript projects. Unlike gRPC, tRPC aims to deliver a simple, type-safe method to create APIs with minimal overhead, leveraging TypeScript’s type inference for seamless integration between the frontend and backend. The article demonstrates building a full-stack TypeScript application using tRPC, featuring a cat-themed app to illustrate backend setup with Express and frontend integration with React. It discusses the advantages of tRPC in terms of type safety, performance, and simplicity, comparing it to GraphQL and REST while highlighting its limitations, such as its restriction to TypeScript and JavaScript environments. Additionally, the article explains how tRPC simplifies API development by ensuring that code changes on one side (backend or frontend) are immediately reflected on the other, thus enhancing development efficiency.