Real-World Examples

iron-monk drops seamlessly into any modern Python project.

🌐 Web & API

• Strawberry GraphQL: Use "Errors as Data" for inputs and fail-fast protection for headers.
• Starlette (ASGI): Validate incoming HTTP request payloads.

⚙️ Configuration & CLI

• tyro (CLI tool): Validate dataclass-driven command-line interfaces.
• App Configuration: Fail-fast environment variable validation for safe application boots.

🛡️ Typing & Ecosystem

• Beartype: Stack runtime type-checking alongside business constraints.

🗄️ Data & ORMs

• SQLAlchemy 2.0: Validate ORM models before committing database transactions.
• Tortoise ORM: Use DTOs to cleanly separate API validation from Active Record persistence.