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This Week in Effect - 2024-07-12

Hi Effecters!

Welcome back to This Week In Effect (TWIE), a weekly update to keep you in the loop with all the latest developments in the Effect community and ecosystem.

Effect is a powerful TypeScript library that helps developers create complex, synchronous, and asynchronous programs. One of the key features that sets Effect apart is how it leverages structured concurrency to provide features such as async cancellation and safe resource management, making it easier to build robust, scalable, and efficient programs.

To get started, below you’ll find links to our documentation as well as our guide for installing Effect. Enjoy!

We want to make it easy for you to find everything you need to fully enjoy your Effect journey and actively engage with the community! In this blog post series, you’ll find all the significant developments from the previous week, such as Discord discussions, noteworthy posts, YouTube content, and technical advancements.

Recent major updates

Effect 3.5 has been released.

Here are all the technical changes that occurred last week (note that changes included in the Effect 3.5 release will not be listed).

In the last week, we welcomed +40 new Effecters to our Discord community - we’re very excited to have you all on board!

  • Johannes Schickling, Effect DX & Power User, appeared on a podcast episode for Happy Path Programming where he talked about Effect and local-first development. Happy Path Programming is a podcast run by James Ward and Bruce Eckel.
  • Daniel Steigerwald, founder of Evolu, will be giving a talk about the use of Effect in his application at the Frontkon 2024 in Prague on October, the 9th. Evolu is a local-first platform designed for privacy, ease of use, and no vendor lock-in.
  • Michael Arnaldi’s talk at the LambdaConf 2024 is now available on LambdaConf YouTube channel: “Effect: A functional foundation for TypeScript”. In this talk, Michael delves into how to use Effect and what you can get “out-of-the-box” from its ecosystem with features such as native open-telemetry, schema validation, structured concurrency, and much more.
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  • Dillon Mulroy, Software Engineer at Vercel, was live streaming again on Building a Twitch overlay with TypeScript and EffectTS. Watch the two episodes below:

That’s all for this week. Thank you for being a vital part of our community. Your feedback is highly valued as we fine-tune this format. Feel free to share your thoughts, and we’ll do our best to tailor it to the needs of our community.

Effect Community Team