If you've shipped a form with Zod, you've written this code at least once:

const result = Schema . safeParse ( input ); if ( ! result . success ) { const errors = result . error . issues . reduce (( acc , issue ) => { acc [ issue . path . join ( " . " )] = issue . message ; return acc ; }, {} as Record < string , string > ); }

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And then you've stared at "Invalid string: expected email" next to a form field and thought: no real user should ever see this.

That tiny translation layer — between what Zod gives you and what your UI actually needs — ends up in every project. So I packaged it.

It's called friendly-zod .…