NestJS · Junior · Question 21 of 75

Why should a DTO be a class rather than a TypeScript interface?

✓Correct answer: Interfaces disappear after compilation, so the validation pipe has nothing to inspect at runtime
2Nest forbids interfaces
3Interfaces can't have optional fields

Explanation

Classes keep their decorators and metadata at runtime, which ValidationPipe and Swagger use.

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