Hey folks! I just started a discussion with a friend at work, and wanted to learn more about why Elm has JSON decoders. Here’s some context to help understand what I’m curious about. Some context: Using Flags Here’s a simple demo of using Elm flags, and an example on Ellie (thanks, Luke!): <html>…

This is worth reading: A vision for data interchange in Elm . This bit made a lot of sense to me: " At this moment in the Elm ecosystem, folks can be quite upset that you have to write JSON decoders by hand. Rather than questioning the idea of using JSON at all, they wonder if Elm itself should be g…

Elm Design Question: Do we need JSON decoders?

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praburajan July 9, 2019, 3:42am 14

Please look at the discussions here - Generic decoding of json to an elm record

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Elm Design Question: Do we need JSON decoders?

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