Sharing a list works between people on the same TREK. This is the other case: giving one to somebody who runs their own, or keeping a copy. Export sits beside Edit and Share in the list header and downloads the open list; Import sits beside New list in the rail, reads a file, shows what is in it and makes a new list of it. Desktop only, which the route already decides. What travels is what somebody wrote down: the list's name, colour and description, its labels, and each place with its address, coordinates, notes, status, contact details, category name and labels. A file is dull JSON on purpose, so it can be read and edited by a person. What does not travel is everything that only means something on the instance it came from. Ids of every kind, since the receiver issues its own and a category crosses over by name. Star ratings and members, because a rating is an opinion somebody gave the people on that list. Provenance into trips, which points at rows the receiver cannot see. And an image path under /uploads, which resolves on the sender's server: only an absolute https URL survives. A file is a stranger's JSON and is read as one. It is parsed in the browser that chose it and never uploaded; the parsed list goes through the same contract on both sides; and a link that is not http(s) arrives as nothing rather than as an anchor. Strict where it must refuse, forgiving where it can drop: a file that does not say what it is never reaches the importer, while one unreadable place inside it is skipped and counted, and one bad field on a good place costs that field alone. An import is always a new list. Importing into an existing one would mean deciding what happens to a place that is already there, and every answer to that is a merge nobody asked for.
@trek/shared
Single source of truth for TREK's API contracts, expressed as Zod schemas and consumed by both the server (request validation + inferred DTO types) and the client (typed requests/responses).
This package is part of the incremental NestJS + React 19 migration (see the "Brownfield Rewrite" board). It is intentionally dormant until modules start importing it — adding it changes nothing for users.
Rules
- One folder per domain:
src/<domain>/<domain>.schema.ts(+.spec.ts). - Domain-agnostic building blocks live in
src/common/. - A route is only considered migrated once its contract lives here.
- Schemas are the source of truth; server DTOs and client types are inferred from them
(
z.infer<typeof schema>), never hand-duplicated.
Consumption (dev)
Both apps resolve @trek/shared to this package's TypeScript source:
- Server (
tsx): viapathsinserver/tsconfig.json. - Client (
vite): viaresolve.aliasinclient/vite.config.ts(+pathsfor the type-checker).
Production packaging (Docker / workspace wiring) is introduced in card F2, when the server first depends on this package at runtime. Until then prod builds are untouched.
Not yet here
The canonical error envelope is finalised in card F5 (it must match TREK's current Express error responses byte-for-byte), so it is deliberately not invented in F1.