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Effect v4 is in beta. 🚀
Rewritten runtime. Smaller bundles. Unified package system.
The most ambitious release we've made so far. Here's what's new. 🧵
ALT Introducing Effect v4 beta. `bun add effect@4.0.0-beta.0`
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Effect is finally API Stable!
Starting with 3.0 the main package will follow semantic versioning:
→ major releases will include breaking changes
→ minor releases will include new features and new modules
→ patch releases will include bug fixes
ALT Effect is finally API stable
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🌟 10k times, thank you!
Effect just crossed 10,000 stars on GitHub.
To celebrate, we’re giving away **Effect swag** to a few folks who share how they’re using Effect in the wild!
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Effect 4.0 is on the way – smaller, faster, and more refined. In his closing remarks, @MichaelArnaldi shared what’s coming:
▸ ~20× faster streams & batching
▸ Smaller bundles
▸ STM integrated into core
Big changes, same focus.
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Learn production-grade app architecture with Effect.
▸ Service-oriented app design
▸ Managing dependencies & resources with layers
▸ Building testable, modular apps
🔗 Link to the Effect Days 2025 Workshop (Part 1) follows
ALT Slide from the workshop: Going Further, as the number of services grow, their relational complexity grows. How do we deal with service composition, singleton services, resource safety?
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"It has brought joy back to writing TypeScript applications" – @dillon_mulroy
Dillon Mulroy leads the Domains team at @vercel where they’re using Effect to power their domain platform.
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🚀 Introducing the Effect Playground - an interactive coding experience embedded right into Effect's website!
Explore the Effect's API, share your code with others & observe the execution of your program using the built-in trace viewer - all without ever leaving your browser!
ALT Banner featuring speaker Maxwell Brown alongside the Effect Playground interface showcasing error tracing.
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“Effect puts you on the path to writing more performant async code by default.” – @ethanniser
Rebuilding Redis from scratch… with Effect 🤯 A must-watch from Effect Days 2025:
piped.video/watch?v=3_3T0AQQ…
ALT Slide from the presentation: Fundamentally better Primitives: Effect<A, E, R> > Promis<A>; Channel<...> > Duplex | TransformStream; Decleratve error handling, dependency injection, interruption. Swappable Services. Standard Library: Schema, STM, PubSub, DateTim, Option, Duration, Schedule
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Effect Workshop: Beginner / Intermediate
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Incremental Adoption of Effect
▸ Wrap Promise-based libraries with the `use` pattern
▸ Integrate Effect into Express & React apps
▸ Tracing, observability & proper resource handling
Workshop Part 2 – Effect Days 2025 ⤵️
ALT Tim Smart speaking at Effect Days 2025. The slide behind him reads: "So, you want to adopt Effect?" But you are already using other frameworks You are using libraries with Promise-based APIs Existing code isn’t written holistically Error handling Resource management Interruption
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Effect 3.19 has been released! 🚀
→ effect/cluster improvements
→ HashRing module
→ Effect.fn.Return
More in the blog post by @tim_smart:
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Exciting news! 🚀
Join us for the first-ever Effect Days conference on Feb 23, 2024 in Vienna. 🎟️ Only 100 tickets available!
But wait, there's more!
We're hosting a hands-on Effect workshop on Feb 22nd. Secure your spot on the waitlist now 👇
effect.website/events/effect…
ALT Effect Days banner. Vienna, Austria. Feb 22-24, 2024. The fountain of the Schönbrunn Palace is used as a background.
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ALT GitHub star growth for the Effect repository. At the bottom, the URLs github.com/effect-ts and discord.gg/effect-ts are displayed.
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Effect 3.5.0 has been released!
→ Better support for Error.cause
→ effect/sql-d1 release
→ Added RcRef & RcMap
→ Added Logger.pretty
→ PubSub replay option
and more: effect.website/blog/effect-3…
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This Week in Effect:
▸ Effect 3.17 is here!
▸ Live sessions on building a GitHub Action, local-first apps, Effect CLI, and more!
▸ Effect technical updates
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"Effect has truly made us faster. It has made us ship more reliable software across the board with better telemetry. We have distributed tracing that just works without headaches."
🎙️ New Cause & Effect episode with Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy, Domains Lead @vercel
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Thank you!
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Effect Cluster – a distributed runtime for Effect, and a major step toward production-grade systems in TypeScript.
▸ Durable workflows across multiple nodes
▸ Distributed systems with structured concurrency
▸ Type safety & resource integrity at scale
Video in next post ⤵️
ALT Why use @effect/cluster? Makes it easy (easier) to write distributed systems Use effect/Schema to model your domain Don’t need to think about the communication layer
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Effect is a meta-framework for TypeScript that takes it to the next level and helps handle code complexity, async code, dependency injection, and error handling in a type-safe manner.
A talk by Aleksandra Sikora @aleksandrasays at Effect Days.
See next post for full video ⤵️
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Effect Workshop by Ethan Niser @ethanniser at Effect Days 2024 for beginner/intermediate Effect developers.
Watch the full workshop in the next post ⤵️
ALT Effect workshop banner with a photo of Ethan Niser, the workshop instructor.
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TypeScript is ready for production with Effect.
You will write better, more robust, maintainable, and scalable applications with Effect.
To learn more, watch the video by @ethanniser in the next post ⤵️
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After the launch of the Effect Playground, we’re thrilled to announce the release of Effect 3.6! 🚀
▫️ DateTime module
▫️ Stream.asyncPush api
▫️ effect/sql-kysely package
and more ⤵️ effect.website/blog/effect-3…
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In his Effect Days talk, David Khourshid @DavidKPiano, author of XState and the founder of @statelyai, discussed the use of state machines and the Effect library for handling complex logic in applications.
Link to full video in the next post ⤵️
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We're excited to announce Guillermo Rauch @rauchg as our speaker at Effect Days!
Guillermo is the visionary founder of @vercel and @nextjs.
Get ready to be inspired! Tickets available below👇
effect.website/events/effect…
ALT Effect Days banner featuring Guillermo Rauch. Get your ticket. Feb 22-24, 2024, Vienna, Austria.
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In the Effect Days 2024 Opening Keynote, Johannes Schickling @schickling talked about the challenges of building production-grade TypeScript apps and how the Effect library can help address these challenges.
Watch the full keynote in the next post ↓
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In addition to Effect Days in Vienna, we're also hosting an Effect meetup in San Francisco next month, and we'd love to have you there! 🙌
If you're in the area, please register at the link below. See you there!
🗓️ November 2nd
🕓 5pm-9pm PT
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ALT Effect logo - TypeScript logo. Effect Meetup #1. November 2nd, 5pm PT San Francisco. Jarred Sumner, Founder of Bun. Johannes Schickling, Founder of Prisma. Michael Arnaldi, Founder of Effect.
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Effect 3.9 is out with new features & improvements:
◆ Effect.Service
◆ Effect/Layer.provide accepts multiple layers
◆ Effect.provide now supports ManagedRuntime
◆ Predicate.isRegExp
◆ Array.pad
and more below ⤵️
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At Effect Days, David Blass @ssalbdivad gave us a deeper understanding of the set theory at the heart of TypeScript and how libraries like Effect and ArkType leverage it to improve static and runtime performance and make your code safer.
Link to full video in the next post ⤵️
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Effect 3.4 has been released!
This release includes a number of new features and improvements. Check out the blog post below for more details:
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Effect 3.10 has just been shipped 🚀
◆ effect/schema moved to effect/Schema
◆ HttpApi improvements
◆ TSubscriptionRef
◆ Stream.fromTQueue & Stream.fromTPubSub
◆ Redactable trait
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Effect 3.7 has been released.
Read about the changes on the blog below, and happy Effecting!
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Introducing inato-form, a new form framework powered by Effect and Effect Schema.
Inato-form was presented by Jérémie Dayan, Staff Engineer at @inatohealth, at Effect Days 2025.
ALT Jérémie Dayan presenting at Effect Days 2025. Slide titled “What have we gained?” listing benefits of using inato-form: Simpler fields with combined schema and UI definition in one place (TextInput.Required) Lower cognitive load: form components focus more on aesthetics, less on mechanics Standardization: reuse existing form fields Composability: share building blocks across forms Dependency injection: external libraries abstracted away DRY principle: use definition.schema server-side to decode API requests Better IntelliSense: e.g., <display.firstName /> vs <TextInput name="firstName" />
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If you know React you already know Effect to a great extent.
Blogged about the mental model of Effect and how it maps to React. If you know React and are curious about Effect this should be a good read: effect.website/blog/from-rea…
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Effect 3.18 has been released! 🚀
• Graph module
• `Context.ReadonlyTag`
• `resize` method has been added to `Effect.Semaphore`
More at the blog post below by @tim_smart ⤵️
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Effect has been nominated for The Most Exciting Use of Technology in the JavaScript Open Source Awards, part of JS Nation @thejsnation.
Use the link below to vote for Effect! ✅ The winners will be announced at the JS Nation Conference on June 13.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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How @dxos_org built Composer – an app platform with real-time collaboration & automated AI workflows.
▸ Structured data between users & AI agents w/ Effect Schema
▸ Complex async pipelines & function execution
▸ Visual orchestration system (Conductor), every node is an Effect
ALT Dmytro Maretsky from DXOS presents a demo at Effect Days 2025 showing a collaborative AI app built with DXOS, Composer, and Effect. The screen displays a chessboard and a chat interface where a user asks to see the Italian Game, and the AI responds by generating the position and explaining the opening.
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We're excited to announce that @ethanniser will lead our workshop at Effect Days on February 22!
Join us in Vienna for an exceptional learning experience!
Secure your spot now 👇
effect.website/events/effect…
ALT Effect Days workshop banner
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Effect 3.8 has been released!
The release blog post can be read here:
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AI-Native User Experiences: The Effect Opportunity
A talk by Guillermo Rauch @rauchg at Effect Days 2024
Link to the full video in the next post ⤵️
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Effect 3.12 has been released! 🚀
⬥ Effect.fn improvements
⬥ Runtime.Context type extractor
⬥ Context.mergeAll
⬥ Cron improvements
⬥ Schema additions
and more at the blog post below by Tim Smart @tim_smart:
effect.website/blog/releases…
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This Week in Effect:
→ Everything you should know about Effect with @swyx & @dillon_mulroy
→ Effect's LSP v0.49 by @mattiamanzati
→ Effect Office Hours 6 with @imax153 & @kitlangton 🔥
More updates below:
effect.website/blog/this-wee…
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Effect + Next.js: Managed Runtimes, Middleware, DX Improvements
By Mattia Crovero @mcrovero | Effect Milan 2025
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Effect 3.1.0 has been released!
This release includes a number of new features and improvements! Learn more at the blog post below by Tim Smart @tim_smart.
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This Week in Effect:
→ Learning Effect with @teej_dv & @kitlangton
→ Error Handling & Effectful Programming in TypeScript by @mattiamanzati
→ Effect Office Hours 5 🔥 with @imax153 & @kitlangton
More updates below:
effect.website/blog/this-wee…
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Exciting talk by Jess Martin @jessmartin from @dxos_org at Effect Days!
Jess introduces a new shape of software architecture that involves a peer-to-peer system, integration with the Effect Schema package, and a local-first software demo.
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This Week in Effect:
→ @louis_g_v, co-founder of @openrouter, on the latest episode of the Cause & Effect podcast 🎙️
→ Building AI applications with Effect & @Netlify w/ @imax153 & @seancdavis29
→ Effect Office Hours 8 🔥
More updates below:
effect.website/blog/this-wee…
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LLMs 🤍 Effect
Groundbreaking stuff from @thefubhy's TypeScript Munich Meetup talk.
Watch from 00:47
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Introducing our next conference speaker, @jdegoes – a renowned functional programmer, author, speaker, and entrepreneur.
John is the author of @GolemCloud & @zioscala, and founder of @zivergetech.
Join us in Vienna and get ready to be inspired👇
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ALT Effect Days banner featuring John A. De Goes. Get your ticket. Feb 22-24, 2024, Vienna, Austria.
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All talks from Effect Days 2025 are now on YouTube!
Explore real-world Effect use cases, deep technical insights, and new tools in the playlist below:
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Effect at the AWS Developers!
Our core contributor, @imax153, presented:
→ Effect + Amazon Bedrock: integrate various AI models & providers with type safety and composability
→ Building agentic systems, tool-calling AI agents & MCP servers
🔗 Link at the next post
ALT Maxwell Brown, Founding Engineer at Effectful Technologies, and James Ward, Principal Developer Advocate, stand in front of laptops at a studio desk, with a soft blue-lit background and vertical wood paneling.
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"Effect is a well-rounded tool that solves a lot of well-known software engineering problems." 💯
An intro about transitioning from "raw" TypeScript to Effect - by @c9antoine
Thank you for helping the community better understand Effect! 🙌
ALT Effect introduction about the whys, helping transitioning from raw TypeScript to Effect TypeScript. Open-source repository on Github by Antoine Coulon.
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This Week in Effect:
▸ New Cause & Effect episode w/ Dillon Mulroy
▸ effect-rx is now effect-atom
▸ 5000+ members on Discord 🎉
Catch up on the latest Effect content, updates, and job opportunities below:
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What does software quality really mean, and how can Effect help achieve it?
In this talk from Effect Days 2025, Attila Večerek, Senior Staff Engineer @Zendesk, makes the case for Effective Pragmatism: building reliable, observable, maintainable systems.
Link in the reply ⤵️
ALT Attila Večerek presents a slide on the importance of observability across company growth stages at Effect Days 2025. The slide features a gradient bar from "Startup" to "Mega-Corp" with corresponding reasons for observability: debugging, performance, cost efficiency, compliance, and governance.
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The @inatohealth team shared their migration journey from fp-ts to Effect, the helpers they developed, and how they ensured a smooth transition of their codebase in just two months!
Check out the article below for more details:
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Effect 3.14 has been released! 🚀
A summary of what’s new:
▸ LayerMap module
▸ effect/rpc refactor
▸ Effect.linkSpanCurrent
▸ Dual Runtime apis
▸ Option transpose apis
More in the blog post below:
effect.website/blog/releases…
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Introducing Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy, Software Engineer at @vercel, as a speaker for Effect Days 2025!
With 10+ years in the JS & TS ecosystem, Dillon is also a regular Twitch streamer of tech content & Effect.
Join us on March 19-21 in Italy! 🇮🇹
→ effect.website/events/effect…
ALT Dillon Mulroy speaker banner
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Effect is production-grade TypeScript.
In this short interview, @MichaelArnaldi talks about the origins of Effect, what he hopes for its future, and his favorite thing about Effect (hint: it's not the hat 🎩 - see next post!)
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How Zendesk incrementally adopted Effect in a polyglot environment with a large codebase.
Cause & Effect podcast w/ Attila Večerek @attilavecerek - #1.
Give it a listen and let us know what you think about their approach!
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Effect Schema 0.69 (Release)
Read the blog post below for a recap of the most important updates ⤵️
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Effect Days is coming on March 19-21, 2025! Stay tuned for more details soon!
🎟️ Want to grab your tickets early? Be sure to join our community: discord.gg/effect-ts
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We’re excited to welcome Ethan Niser @ethanniser as a speaker at Effect Days 2025! Ethan is an advocate, educator and content creator for Effect!
Join us to connect and explore the latest in the Effect ecosystem!
🗓️ March 19-21, 2025
🎟️ effect.website/events/effect…
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You'd need to setup the Effect Language Service plugin: github.com/Effect-TS/languag…
It's pretty straightforward to get setup though - checkout the README.
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The news is out! 📢
We have made the decision to unite and collaborate on *Effect* as a generational project that aims to create a more cohesive and powerful ecosystem of libraries that are accessible and useful to developers of all levels.
#TypeScript
A bit of an announcement: fp-ts merging into @EffectTS_ together with @GiulioCanti
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Latest release of effect/opentelemetry 🚀
It includes new modules that allows you to export otel without the opentelemetry libraries – useful for environments like cloudflare or react native.
→Changelog entry:
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A glimpse at what’s coming to Effect Days:
◆ AI Agents
◆ Error Management & Testing
◆ Effect Cluster & Fibers
◆ Next-Gen DevTools
◆ Rebuilding Redis for great Effect
and much more!
🎟️ Get your ticket now:
effect.website/events/effect…
ALT Effect for Domains, Building LLM Systems, React forms with Effect, Effective pragmatism, Effect for AWS Lambda,
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Building a Local-First Application with Effect and Livestore nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1BRKjmZaR…
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"You can't afford not to use Effect at this point"
- @kitlangton
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Effect Days - Tickets Out Now! 🚀
March 19-21, 2025
Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Early-bird tickets available! 🎟️
Get yours now ⤵️
effect.website/events/effect…
ALT An Effect & TypeScript developers conference. In-person only.
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Over 2,2k stars on GitHub! ⭐️⭐️
github.com/Effect-TS
A shoutout to our amazing community 🙌: discord.gg/effect-ts
ALT Chart of effect-ts Github star history from the end of 2020 to today, August 14th 2023.
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Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy talking about his journey as a developer, TypeScript, and Effect!
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Durable workflows using Effect Cluster help handle failures and retries in distributed systems, and provide building blocks for handling activities and workflows.
A talk by @MattiaManzati at Effect Days 2024.
See the next post for the full video link ⤵️
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The Effect community has surpassed 3,000 members! Join our vibrant and engaging community today and be part of the exciting journey! 🙌
→ discord.gg/effect-ts
ALT Join the Effect community
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Effect 3.13 has been released! 🚀
Here’s a summary of what’s new:
▸ Schema.standardSchemaV1
▸ Effect.fn improvements
▸ RcMap improvements
▸ Effect.transposeOption
▸ Effect.filterEffectOrElse
More on our blog post below:
effect.website/blog/releases…
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Effect: The missing TypeScript standard library
An introduction to Effect by Tomáš Horáček
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Get ready for the longest and greatest thread ever, and help us pick the best tagline for Effect (or suggest your own💡)!
Special thanks go to the one and only @Datnerr for his exceptional contribution and creativity, and many others in the community 🙌
Here we go 👇
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This Week in Effect:
→ The difficulty of complexity by Ethan Niser.
→ Demystifying Effect Scopes by Harry Solovay.
→ Coding sessions: Rebuilding ContentLayer, Effect API provider integration for Google, and Building ChEffect.
More updates below:
effect.website/blog/this-wee…
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Effect is heading to NYC! 🗽
Join us on Nov 19 at @joinwarp's office for an evening of talks, discussions & networking.
RSVP below:
luma.com/ihoo6kxy
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2024 was a milestone year with Effect 3.0, the first Effect Days in Vienna, and winning The Most Exciting Use of Technology Award at JSNation among other achievements!
As we head into 2025, we’re excited to keep building, innovating, and growing together – Happy New Year! ✨
ALT A photo collage highlighting some of the achievements from 2024: the Effect 3.0 release announcement, a snapshot from the first Effect Days conference in Vienna, the Most Exciting Technology 2024 award at JSNation, and glimpses of community contributions, workshops, and meetups, a snapshot from Cause & Effect podcast, the launch of the Effect Playground.
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During Effect Days, Tim Smart @tim_smart, a Founding Engineer at @EffectfulTech, presented the latest and greatest features of Effect, including Platform Workers, Effect RPC, and a VSCode extension for observability in development.
Link to the full talk in the next post ↓
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Building AI Agents with Effect
A talk by Tim Suchanek @TimSuchanek at Effect Days 2024.
Link to full video in the thread ⤵️
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"It makes doing the hard, tedious, and error-prone tasks that require discipline – easy, natural, first-class."
– @dillon_mulroy on why the Domains team at @vercel is betting on Effect.
Watch Dillon’s full talk from Effect Days 2025 ⤵️
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Effect Days is returning this March 2025, set in a beautiful seaside location in Tuscany, Italy! 🇮🇹
Join us for insightful talks, delicious food, and beautiful coastal views. Grab your ticket now! 🎟️
effect.website/events/effect…
ALT A photo collage from the Effect Days 2025 venue
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If you are using effect/cluster, a breaking change will be released shortly to add support for shard grouping.
You can read about the change below:
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At Effect Days, Antoine Coulon @c9antoine talked about his journey of building a static analysis tool called @skott_npm using Effect-driven development, which combines the principles of test-driven and type-driven development.
Link to the full video in the thread ⤵️
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Effect Office Hours next week! 🔥
→ Hosted by Kit Langton @kitlangton & Maxwell Brown @imax153
→ Wed, Sept 24 · 3–4 PM ET
Register below:
luma.com/bexgnahi
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