Use Effect (not useEffect)

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Prisma founder Johannes Schickling has been using the Effect library for the last couple years. Today he joins Jerod & Nick to tell us all about this very interesting tool for building robust apps in TypeScript.

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Featuring:

• Johannes Schickling – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Friends: What do we want from a web browser?
• Welcome to Effect
• Effect Days 2024

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Convex (00:00:39)

https://www.convex.dev/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=changelog-news

3. Welcoming Johannes (00:03:15)

4. Introducing Effect (00:04:30)

https://effect.website

5. What scale of apps need this? (00:08:31)

6. Error (non) handling (00:10:46)

7. The right thing should be easy (00:16:54)

8. Full-stack Effect (00:18:40)

9. A trivial example (00:20:57)

10. On incremental adoption (00:25:34)

11. The observability story (00:28:12)

12. Trying to scale console.logs (00:30:34)

13. Sponsor: Caisy (00:34:27)

https://caisy.io?utm_source=changelog

14. Nick thinks adoption out loud (00:36:49)

15. Tool adoption practices (00:40:37)

16. On learning curves (00:43:11)

17. On state management (00:44:58)

18. Effect Days 2024 in Vienna (00:47:05)

https://effect.website/events/effect-days

19. Closing words (00:48:06)

20. Closing puns (00:49:51)

21. Next up on the pod (00:50:23)