The motivation behind this talk is that we were exploring building an API for the product that I was working on, and there's a lot of tools out there. It's been a while since I've built brand new APIs, so I've been hearing about tRPC for a while from friends and other engineers that I've worked with, so I decided to take the plunge, do some research, and this talk itself is the culmination of all that research.

The target audience is front-end or full stack devs that are working in JavaScript or TypeScript and looking for what's next or what's new about building APIs. So if you're working on a front-end app, this will be valuable to you because you'll know how to build your own API without waiting for a back-end team. If you are a back-end engineer, and you want to help support front-end engineers, you'll also have a good understanding of how you could support this with end-to-end type safety.

I would say that the entire approach of TypeScript has changed in the last year with these new updates and how ergonomic it's become. I think if you haven't tried TypeScript, definitely try it out now and hopefully this talk will get you interested in that. But also tRPC is only a couple of years old, so this is now the time. It's really early. There's still lots of missing documentation, which I'll mention in my talk, but really I would love for people to walk away excited about working with this technology and helping support the community in open source and creating documentation, examples, etc.