scala-cats

Explore Id Monad in Cats

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020Functional Programming, Studio-Scala, Tech Blogscats, Id, monad, monads, monads in cats, scala, scala cats, scala-cats, scalacats, scalafp

Reading Time: 3 minutes Today we are going to explore Id Monad in Cats. If you don’t know about Monad I’ll suggest you go through this blog and then read this for better understanding. What is Id Monad? According to the referenced book: Id is actually a type alias that turns an atomic type into a single-parameter type constructor. Ahan! So, did you understand something? Let me explain it Continue Reading

Understanding Monads: An Introduction

October 21, 2020November 18, 2020Functional Programming, Studio-Scala, Tech Blogscats, monads, monads in cats, scala, scala cats, Scala Monads, scala-cats, scalacats, scalafp

Reading Time: 3 minutes In Scala, we all have heard about Option, Future etc. I also heard that they are Monads. It was a new term to me so I googled it and the definitions I initially read were too confusing. Here is one of them : What is Monoid? What are Endofunctors? Looking into all these is so complex. So here, I’ll try to cover Monads in a Continue Reading