Before we introduce what is Monad, first let's recap what is a pointed functor: A pointed functor is a Functor with .of() method Why pointed Functor is imporant? here OK, now, let's continue to see some code: const mmo = Maybe.of(Maybe.of('nunchucks'…

When we start to accumulate functions that all work on a given datatype, we end up creating a bunch of boilerplate code in almost every function to handle the changes we need to make to our records’ values. This can lead to not only undesirable boile…

When building our stateful computations, there will come a time when we’ll need to combine two or more state transactions at the same time to come up with a new result. Usually this occurs when want to use plain ol’ JavaScript functions with two or m…

We explore a means to represent the combination of our stateful computations using familiar composition. We dive into what makes this possible by talking about what are known as Kleisli Arrows and explore some interesting properties surrounding them.…

The true power of the State ADT really shows when we start combining our discrete, stateful transactions. We start looking at another construction helper named of, used to lift any given value of any type into the resultant. We also explore another i…

Using put to update our state for a given state transaction can make it difficult to modify a given state based on its previous value. In this lesson we will explore a means to lift specialized functions that can be used modify our state’s value. The…

We take a closer look at the get construction helper and see how we can use it to lift a function that maps the state portion and updates the resultant with the result. Using get in this fashion, we then demonstrate how we can make accessors that can…

We explore our first stateful transaction, by devising a means to echo our state value into the resultant for independent modification. With our state value in the resultant, we explore using mapto lift functions into our type as a means to modify th…

Lifting Now, let's review map from another perspective. map :: (T -> R) -> [T] -> [R] accepts 2 parameters, a function f :: T -> R and a list list :: [T]. [T] is a generic type paramterized by T, it's not the same as T, but definitely shares s…

In functional programming, a monad is a design pattern that defines how functions, actions, inputs, and outputs can be used together to build generic types,[1] with the following organization: Define a data type, and how values of that data type are…