This particular annoyance has made me a huge fan of Elm's (and other languages') JSON decoders, and specifically No Red Ink's JSON decoding pipeline. All the ty

This particular annoyance has made me a huge fan of Elm's (and other languages') JSON decoders, and specifically No Red Ink's JSON decoding pipeline. All the type safety I could ever want and no falling back to writing defensive JS to maintain safety at runtime.