docs/api/schema/index.md
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# Schema Overview
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`@feathersjs/schema` provides a way to define data models and to dynamically resolve them. It comes in in the following main parts:
- [JSON schema](https://json-schema.org/) using [TypeBox](./typebox.md) or [plain JSON schema](./schema.md) to define a data model with TypeScript types and validations. This allows us to:
- Automatically get TypeScript types from schema definitions
- Automatically generate API documentation
- Create [database adapter](../databases/common.md) models without duplicating the data format
- [Validators](./validators.md) take a [TypeBox](./typebox.md) or [JSON](./schema.md) schema to validate data to
- Ensure data is valid and always in the right format
- Validate query string queries and convert them to the right type
- [Resolvers](./resolvers.md) - Resolve properties based on a context (usually the [hook context](../hooks.md)). This can be used for many different things like:
- Adding default and computed values
- Populating associations
- Securing queries and e.g. limiting requests to a user
- Removing protected properties for external requests
- Ability to add read- and write permissions on the property level
- Hashing passwords and validating dynamic password policies