Create a new merjs API route
SkillDev toolsScaffold a new merjs API route. Use when the user wants to create a new API endpoint.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
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Then ask your AI: use the Create a new merjs API route skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by justrach/merjs in .claude/skills/new-api/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Scaffold a new API route at api/$ARGUMENTS.zig.
Steps
- Create
api/$ARGUMENTS.zigwith this template:
const mer = @import("mer");
const Response = struct {
// Define your response fields here
message: []const u8,
};
pub fn render(req: mer.Request) mer.Response {
return mer.typedJson(req.allocator, Response{
.message = "hello",
});
}
- Adapt the Response struct fields based on what the user described
- Run
zig build codegento regenerate routes - Confirm the route appears at
/api/$ARGUMENTS
Conventions
- API routes live in
api/and map to/api/... - Use
mer.typedJson(allocator, value)to return typed JSON responses - Use
mer.json(string)for raw JSON strings - Access request body via
req.body, method viareq.method - Access query string via
req.query_string - Access cookies via
req.cookie("name") - For validation, use dhi:
const dhi = @import("dhi_validator"); - API routes do NOT need
pub const meta
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 354
- Forks
- 17
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
new-api-justrach- Source
- github.com/justrach/merjs