--- title: Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript | daily.dev description: Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript Transcript The Basketball Analogy. Brian Douglas: I'm going to give a quick little history lesson all the way... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-typesafe-apis-with-trpc-typescript-sox9he71v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript | daily.dev og:description: Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript Transcript The Basketball Analogy. Brian Douglas: I'm going to give a quick little history lesson all the way... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-typesafe-apis-with-trpc-typescript-sox9he71v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/soX9hE71v.png og:image:alt: Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 31 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript Transcript The Basketball Analogy. Brian Douglas: I'm going to give a quick little history lesson all the way from 2020. Douglas: In 2020, there was this documentary called, The Last Dance, and it was based on Michael Jordan. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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