Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later

Re:Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later by maxiepoo on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:32AM (#14891749)

Can you not do the same thing as JSON.parse() in Elm by parsing into an unstructured JSON type?

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Re:Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later by mjaniczek on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:05PM (#14893799)

Parsing into Json.Encode.Value gives you that Value but no way to work with it except, at later time, using Json.Decode.decodeValue on it. And you're back to specifying decoders...

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Re:Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later by maxiepoo on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:01AM (#14900175)

Seems like you could easily make a library that just parses into some Union type that represents JSON values.

It's likely a design decision to force people that otherwise wouldn't to represent their data in a more structured way.

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