Table of Content

There's no correct way to learn Elysia, but we recommended completing the essential chapter first as the chapter briefly covers most of Elysia's features and foundation before jumping to other topics that interest you.

Cheat sheet

A quick overview of Elysia

Structure

Understand how to structure your code

Validation

Enforce data type and create a unified type

Life Cycle

Intercept events and customize behaviors

Plugin and Scope

Understand how to separate Elysia, and scope

Eden

End-to-end type safety client for Elysia

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Once you've completed the essential chapter, you may jump to any topic that interests you. We have organized a recommended chapter in order as it may reference to previous chapter.

Prerequisite Knowledge

Although Elysia's documentation is designed to be beginner-friendly, we need to establish a baseline so that the docs can stay focused on Elysia's functionality. We will provide links to relevant documentation whenever we introduce a new concept.

To get the most out of our documentation, it's recommended that you have a basic understanding of Node.js and basic HTTP.