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This Week in Effect - 2025-10-24

Hi Effecters!

Welcome back to This Week In Effect (TWIE) - your weekly update of 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 key feature 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!

Recent major updates:

 

Here are all the technical changes from the past week.

 

  • teej dv was live with Kit Langton for an Effect learning session. You can’t afford not to use Effect at this point.

 

  • effect-env – a TypeScript library for managing environment variables with type safety, schema validation, and security features, built with Effect. Project by Paul Philp.

 

  • Alette Signal Beta release. A frontend data fetching library built with Effect.

 

 

  • End-to-end Effect, a talk by Sebastian Lorenz, was presented at the TypeScript Munich Meetup on October 20th.

 

  • The first Effect Meetup in Nice happened on October 23rd, thanks to Hugo Muffraggi, who also shared that the next one is planned for early next year.

 

 

  • The first talk from the Effect Milan Meetup 2025, Error Handling & Effectful Programming in TypeScript w/ Effect by Mattia Manzati, is now on YouTube. Play

 

🔥 Effect Office Hours 4: Effect Atom, Effect API, Tracing & Telemetry, File System Abstractions… and Rebuilding Contentlayer w/Effect (Part 19) are now on our YouTube Channel.

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Don’t forget to listen to our Cause & Effect podcast hosted by Johannes Schickling and available on YouTube, X(Twitter), and audio platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcast.

This podcast highlights stories from software engineers and companies using Effect in production. Each episode explores their journey of adopting Effect, including the learning process, challenges faced, and benefits of integrating Effect into their tech stack.

We’ve published our fifth episode with Samuel Briole, CTO of Spiko, a Paris-based FinTech startup building infrastructure for issuing regulated financial products on public blockchains, specifically risk-free products.

Spiko utilizes Effect extensively, from day one, for both backend and frontend development, particularly for managing asynchronous operations, API integrations, and smart contracts.

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More and more companies are adopting Effect in their projects. Here’s a list of companies looking for software engineers with Effect experience:

Disclaimer: Please note that these job postings are shared for informational purposes, and we encourage applicants to verify details directly with the hiring companies.

 

The Effect Merch Store offers a selection of Effect-branded items designed for the community. All orders are processed and fully managed through Printful.

 

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