---
title: guard
description: Creates a guard transformation action.
source: /actions/guard/guard.ts
contributors:
  - EskiMojo14
---

import { ApiList, Property } from '~/components';
import { properties } from './properties';

# guard

Creates a guard transformation action.

```ts
const Action = v.guard<TInput, TGuard, TMessage>(requirement, message);
```

## Generics

- `TInput` <Property {...properties.TInput} />
- `TGuard` <Property {...properties.TGuard} />
- `TMessage` <Property {...properties.TMessage} />

## Parameters

- `requirement` <Property {...properties.requirement} />
- `message` <Property {...properties.message} />

### Explanation

With `guard` you can freely validate the input and return `true` if it is valid or `false` otherwise. If the input does not match your `requirement`, you can use `message` to customize the error message.

This is especially useful if you have an existing type predicate (for example, from an external library).

> `guard` is useful for narrowing known types. For validating completely unknown values, consider [`custom`](/api/custom/) instead.

## Returns

- `Action` <Property {...properties.Action} />

## Examples

The following examples show how `guard` can be used.

### Pixel string schema

Schema to validate a pixel string.

```ts
const PixelStringSchema = v.pipe(
  v.string(),
  v.guard((input): input is `${number}px` => /^\d+px$/.test(input))
);
```

### Axios Error schema

Schema to validate an object containing an Axios error.

```ts
import { isAxiosError } from 'axios';

const AxiosErrorSchema = v.object({
  error: v.pipe(
    v.instance(Error),
    v.guard(isAxiosError, 'The error is not an Axios error.')
  ),
});
```

## Related

The following APIs can be combined with `guard`.

### Schemas

<ApiList
  items={[
    'any',
    'array',
    'bigint',
    'blob',
    'boolean',
    'custom',
    'date',
    'enum',
    'exactOptional',
    'file',
    'function',
    'instance',
    'intersect',
    'lazy',
    'literal',
    'looseObject',
    'looseTuple',
    'map',
    'nan',
    'never',
    'nonNullable',
    'nonNullish',
    'nonOptional',
    'null',
    'nullable',
    'nullish',
    'number',
    'object',
    'objectWithRest',
    'optional',
    'picklist',
    'promise',
    'record',
    'set',
    'strictObject',
    'strictTuple',
    'string',
    'symbol',
    'tuple',
    'tupleWithRest',
    'undefined',
    'undefinedable',
    'union',
    'unknown',
    'variant',
    'void',
  ]}
/>

### Methods

<ApiList items={['forward', 'pipe']} />

### Utils

<ApiList items={['isOfKind', 'isOfType']} />
