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Happy Path Programming

#101 Effects and Local-First with Johannes Schickling

Jul 7, 2024
Developer Johannes Schickling discusses Effect, a ZIO-inspired system for TypeScript, and the Local-First movement. They explore challenges in TypeScript community, state management in distributed systems, benefits of local-first design, offline software usage, building a local-first music app with Spotify integration, and challenges of building UIs and introducing Live Store data layer. They highlight the advantages of effects in TypeScript and the strong community support surrounding Effect.
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Quick takeaways

  • Effect library enhances TypeScript error handling and observability.
  • Local First architecture simplifies distributed systems for app developers.

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GitHub partners with Zendesk and Vercel to prioritize building production-grade systems

The podcast episode discusses GitHub's collaboration with Zendesk and Vercel to move more production workloads to Effect, emphasizing the importance of building production-grade systems with TypeScript. The intersection where developers and companies build real systems with TypeScript intersects with the problems that Effect helps solve, focusing on error handling, observability, and cancellation.

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