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Day two on the new TypeScript team. You left Symfony last Friday. You open the new TypeScript repo, scroll to a controller, and expect to see something close to:

#[Route('/users/{id}', methods: ['GET'])] public function show ( int $id ): Response { /* ... */ }

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What you find instead is one of three different things, depending on which framework the team picked:

// NestJS @ Controller ( ' users ' ) class UsersController { @ Get ( ' :id ' ) show (@ Param ( ' id ' ) id : number ) { /* ... */ } }

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// Hono app . get ( ' /users/:id ' , validate ( IdParam ), async ( c ) => { /* ... */ });

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// tRPC export const users = router ({ show : publicProcedure . input ( z .…