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This Week in Effect - 2026-01-09

Davide Scognamiglio
Davide Scognamiglio
Project Manager
 Mirela Prifti
Mirela Prifti
Community Manager
 Michael Arnaldi
Michael Arnaldi
BDFL

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 build 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:

 

Technology

Here are all the technical changes from the past week.

Effect Core

Effect AI

Effect Cluster

Effect SQL

General Chore

 

Community Highlights

 

 

 

 

  • Goodbye TanStack Form: Schema-Driven Forms w/ Effect.ts by Lucas Barake.
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  • Makisuo optimized Hazel initial load speed using Effect tracing. Hazel is a local-first real-time collaborative chat platform built with Effect-TS, ElectricSQL, and React 19.

 

 

  • effect-slack - An Effect-native Slack SDK with built-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and smart retry mechanisms. Project by Mateo Kruk.

 

  • fx-fetch, an open source production-ready HTTP fetching library built with Effect. Project by Adam Josefus.

 

  • create-epoch-app - An opinionated full-stack starter template combining Effect, Convex, and Next.js 15 in a monorepo structure. Project by Rhys Sullivan.

 

  • honertia - An Inertia.js adapter for Hono that brings Laravel-style development patterns to Cloudflare Workers with Effect-based handlers. Project by Patrick Ogilvie.

 

  • effstate - An Effect-based state machine library with type-safe transitions, dependency injection, and hierarchical state structures. Project by Handfish.

 

  • Unleaded - An interactive CLI tool for searching and filtering car listings, built with Effect, Ink for terminal UI, and Effect Atom for state management. Project by OperationalFallacy.

 

 

Effect Content Update

  • Effect Office Hours 11 went live on Wednesday! We will publish an edited version on our YouTube channel soon. In the meantime, you can watch the livestream on X(Twitter)

  • Office Hours 10: Library Design, Error Modeling and Propagation, Schema Usage, Service Design and ChEffect - Part 12: A Local-First App built w/ Effect & LiveStore are now on our YouTube Channel.

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Cause & Effect Podcast

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.

We’ve published our seventh episode with Adam Rankin, CTO at Warp, who joined Johannes Schickling to talk about using Effect to bring structure and composability to a growing TypeScript codebase, enabling a small, fast-moving team to stay productive while shipping reliable payment & payroll systems.

Play

 

Effect Job Opportunities

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.

 

Effect Merch Store

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

 

Closing Notes

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

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