Its a little wordy, but now that I&#x27;m used to it, it takes no time to write decoders&#x2F;encoders.  There is also a tool to automatically generate them from JSON input at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;noredink.github.io&#x2F;json-to-elm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;noredink.github.io&#x2F;json-to-elm&#x2F;</a>