Use Zod 4.1 Codecs for transforms?

[alexanderhorner]

Zod 4.1 added codecs, which provide typed decode and encode helpers for bi-directional transforms. Would it make sense to try implementing the existing transformers with codecs?

That could make the input/output mapping strongly typed and maybe simplify some of the runtime code.

[mrlubos]

It would certainly work, but you'd be trading bundle size and performance for type accuracy. It all depends on how large your schemas are and if that's an acceptable tradeoff