Optics By Example
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Optics By Example

Functional lenses in Haskell
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About the Book

Hi! I'm Chris, the author of Optics By Example!

Optics By Example is a one-stop comprehensive guide to mastering optics in functional programming languages. It covers everything you need to know to go from complete beginner to advanced. Each topic is accompanied by copious examples and exercises!

See the Sample for a complete list of chapters, but here are some highlights:

  • Complete introductions to Lenses, Folds, Traversals, Prisms and Isos
  • Learn the magic of Indexed optics
  • Composing Optics
  • Lenses & Records
  • Fixing "The Record Problem"
  • Application design techniques using Classy optics
  • Breakdowns of laws and limitations for each optic type
  • Virtual lenses
  • Validation lenses
  • A guide to fully polymorphic optics
  • A guide to "operator-style"
  • Learn to query, filter, and aggregate data with surgical precision
  • Learn how to use higher-order optics effectively
  • Learn to write custom versions of all optics types for your own applications
  • Manipulate data types with a clean and consistent interface
  • Learn the monadic DSLs for using lenses in real monad stacks

WHY OPTICS?

Optics have become a wonderful and powerful new way of working with immutable data structures. They're almost a necessity at this point; and the benefits they bring in terms of re-usability, simplification of code maintenance & refactoring, and expressivity are immense! However, learning to use optics can be tricky or even intimidating at first, it's not always clear how to build up a large complicated mutation or query from the building blocks of optics. Optics by example is here to help!

This book is great as a first guide to optics, as a reference guide for discovering and mastering the optics you need for day-to-day problems, and as a springboard into new ideas and tools which you may not have even heard of.

About the Author

Chris Penner
Chris Penner

Hey there! I'm a programmer, coffee lover and acrobat!

I love functional programming and I love writing, seems only natural to bring the two together (especially since it's a bit tougher to match coding and acrobatics!)

Hope you enjoy my book!

Reader Testimonials

Riccardo Odone
Riccardo Odone

Instabuy

Instabuy. Chris is one of the best FP mentors I've ever met. When I heard about the book I stopped reading anything else about optics. This is all I'm gonna need!

Vladimir Ciobanu
Vladimir Ciobanu

Great Pacing

I'm really happy Optics by Example is out! I've been programming in Haskell for almost two years and I've been mostly staying away from optics/lens until now due to their infamous errors and lack of good tutorials/references. This book is a great and thorough introduction, the pacing's great, and it's packed with fun exercises. I recommended it to all my colleagues, and I recommend it to anyone doing Haskell/FP!

Fintan Halpenny
Fintan Halpenny

Eye Opener

Optics by Example opened my eyes to the benefits of Lenses et al. First I was blind but now I see!

Chessai
Chessai

I used to be an optics skeptic. Not skeptical that optics are useful, but skeptical that you could write maintainable _and_ widely approachable code using them. This book changed my mind. I now think that it _is_ possible to make optics, even the more powerful parts, approachable to people of all skill levels. Chris told me at some point that he had been teaching novices to be competent with lens, and at the time, I just didn't believe him. Now I do.

Table of Contents

  • 1 Obligatory Preamble
    • 1.1 Why should I read this book?
    • 1.2 How to read this book
    • 1.3 Chosen language and optics encodings
    • 1.4 Your practice environment
    • 1.5 Following examples
    • 1.6 About the type signatures
    • 1.7 About the exercises
  • 2 Optics
    • 2.1 What are optics?
    • 2.2 Strengths
    • 2.3 Weaknesses
    • 2.4 Practical optics at a glance
    • 2.5 Impractical optics at a glance
  • 3 Lenses
    • 3.1 Introduction to Lenses
      • Anatomy
      • Exercises – Optic Anatomy
    • 3.2 Lens actions
      • Viewing through lenses
      • Setting through a lens
      • Exercises - Lens Actions
    • 3.3 Lenses and records
      • Lenses subsume the “accessor” pattern
      • Building a lens for a record field
      • Exercises - Records Part One
      • Getting and setting with a field lens
      • Modifying fields with a lens
      • Automatically generating field lenses
      • Exercises - Records Part Two
    • 3.4 Limitations
      • Is it a Lens?
      • Is it a Lens? – Answers
    • 3.5 Lens Laws
      • Why do optics have laws?
      • The Laws
      • Case Study: _1
      • Case Study: msg
      • Case Study: lensProduct
      • Exercises - Laws
    • 3.6 Virtual Fields
      • What’s a virtual field
      • Writing a virtual field
      • Breakage-free refactoring
      • Exercises – Virtual Fields
    • 3.7 Data correction and maintaining invariants
      • Including correction logic in lenses
      • Exercises – Self-Correcting Lenses
  • 4 Polymorphic Optics
    • 4.1 Introduction to polymorphic optics
      • Simple vs Polymorphic optics
    • 4.2 When do we need polymorphic lenses
      • Type-changing focuses
      • Changing type variables with polymorphic lenses
      • Exercises – Polymorphic Lenses
    • 4.3 Composing Lenses
      • How do I update fields in deeply nested records?
      • Composing update functions
      • Composing Lenses
      • How do Lens Types Compose?
      • Exercises – Lens Composition
  • 5 Operators
    • 5.1 Lens Operators
    • 5.2 view a.k.a. ^.
    • 5.3 set a.k.a. .~
    • 5.4 Chaining many operations
    • 5.5 Using %~ a.k.a. over
    • 5.6 Learning Hieroglyphics
    • 5.7 Modifiers
    • 5.8 When to use operators vs named actions?
    • 5.9 Exercises – Operators
  • 6 Folds
    • 6.1 Introduction to Folds
      • Focusing all elements of a container
      • Collapsing the Set
      • Collecting focuses as a list
      • Using lenses as folds
      • Composing folds
      • Foundational fold combinators
      • Exercises – Simple Folds
    • 6.2 Custom Folds
      • Mapping over folds
      • Combining multiple folds on the same structure
      • Exercises – Custom Folds
    • 6.3 Fold Actions
      • Writing queries with folds
      • Queries case study
      • Folding with effects
      • Combining fold results
      • Using ‘view’ on folds
      • Customizing monoidal folds
      • Exercises – Fold Actions
    • 6.4 Higher Order Folds
      • Taking, Dropping
      • Backwards
      • TakingWhile, DroppingWhile
      • Exercises – Higher Order Folds
    • 6.5 Filtering folds
      • Filtered
      • Exercises – Filtering
    • 6.6 Fold Laws
  • 7 Traversals
    • 7.1 Introduction to Traversals
      • How do Traversals fit into the hierarchy?
      • A bit of Nostalgia
      • From fold to traversal
    • 7.2 Traversal Combinators
      • Traversing each element of a container
      • More Combinators
      • Traversing multiple paths at once
      • Focusing a specific traversal element
    • 7.3 Traversal Composition
      • Exercises – Simple Traversals
    • 7.4 Traversal Actions
      • A Primer on Traversable
      • Traverse on Traversals
      • Infix traverseOf
      • Using Traversals directly
      • Exercises – Traversal Actions
    • 7.5 Custom traversals
      • Optics look like traverse
      • Our first custom traversal
      • Traversals with custom logic
      • Case Study: Transaction Traversal
      • Exercises – Custom Traversals
    • 7.6 Traversal Laws
      • Law One: Respect Purity
      • Law Two: Consistent Focuses
      • Good Traversal Bad Traversal
      • Exercises – Traversal Laws
    • 7.7 Advanced manipulation
      • partsOf
      • Polymorphic partsOf
      • partsOf and other data structures
      • Exercises – partsOf
  • 8 Indexable Structures
    • 8.1 What’s an “indexable” structure?
    • 8.2 Accessing and updating values with ‘Ixed’
      • The Ixed Class
      • Accessing and setting values with ix
      • Indexed Structures
      • Indexing monomorphic types
      • Indexing stranger structures
    • 8.3 Inserting & Deleting with ‘At’
      • Map-like structures
      • Manipulating Sets
      • Exercises – Indexable Structures
    • 8.4 Custom Indexed Data Structures
      • Custom Ixed: Cyclical indexing
      • Custom At: Address indexing
      • Exercises – Custom Indexed Structures
    • 8.5 Handling missing values
      • Checking whether updates succeed
      • Fallbacks with ‘failing’
      • Default elements
      • Checking fold success/failure
      • Exercises – Missing Values
  • 9 Prisms
    • 9.1 Introduction to Prisms
      • How do Prisms fit into the hierarchy?
      • Simple Pattern-Matching Prisms
      • Checking pattern matches with prisms
      • Generating prisms with makePrisms
      • Embedding values with prisms
      • Other types of patterns
      • Exercises – Prisms
    • 9.2 Writing Custom Prisms
      • Rebuilding _Just and _Nothing
      • Matching String Prefixes
      • Cracking the coding interview: Prisms style!
      • Exercises – Custom Prisms
    • 9.3 Laws
      • Law One: Review-Preview
      • Law Two: Prism Complement
      • Law Three: Pass-through Reversion
      • Summary
      • Exercises – Prism Laws
    • 9.4 Case Study: Simple Server
      • Path prefix matching
      • Altering sub-sets of functions
      • Matching on HTTP Verb
  • 10 Isos
    • 10.1 Introduction to Isos
      • How do Isos fit into the hierarchy?
      • There and back again
    • 10.2 Building Isos
    • 10.3 Flipping isos with from
    • 10.4 Modification under isomorphism
    • 10.5 Varieties of isomorphisms
      • Composing isos
      • Exercises – Intro to Isos
    • 10.6 Projecting Isos
      • Exercises – Projected Isos
    • 10.7 Isos and newtypes
      • Coercing with isos
      • Newtype wrapper isos
    • 10.8 Laws
      • The one and only law: Reversibility
      • Exercises – Iso Laws
  • 11 Indexed Optics
    • 11.1 What are indexed optics?
    • 11.2 Index Composition
      • Custom index composition
      • Exercises – Indexed Optics
    • 11.3 Filtering by index
      • Exercises – Index Filters
    • 11.4 Custom indexed optics
      • Custom IndexedFolds
      • Custom IndexedTraversals
      • Index helpers
      • Exercises – Custom Indexed Optics
    • 11.5 Index-preserving optics
  • 12 Dealing with Type Errors
    • 12.1 Interpreting expanded optics types
    • 12.2 Type Error Arena
      • First Foe: Level 1 Lenslion
      • Level 2 Tuplicant
      • Level 3 Settersiren
      • Level 4 Composicore
      • Level 5 Foldasaurus
      • Level 6 Higher Order Beast
      • Level 7 Traversacula
  • 13 Optics and Monads
    • 13.1 Reader Monad and View
    • 13.2 State Monad Combinators
    • 13.3 Magnify & Zoom
  • 14 Classy Lenses
    • 14.1 What are classy lenses and when do I need them?
      • No duplicate record fields
      • Separating logic and minimizing global knowledge
      • Granular dependencies with makeFields
      • Field requirements compose
    • 14.2 makeFields vs makeClassy
  • 15 JSON
    • 15.1 Introspecting JSON
    • 15.2 Diving deeper into JSON structures
    • 15.3 Traversing into multiple JSON substructures
      • Traversing Arrays
      • Traversing Objects
    • 15.4 Filtering JSON Queries
    • 15.5 Serializing & Deserializing within an optics path
    • 15.6 Exercises: Kubernetes API
      • BONUS Questions
  • 16 Uniplate - Manipulating recursive data
    • 16.1 A Brief History
    • 16.2 Control.Lens.Plated
      • Children
      • Rewrite
      • Universe
      • Transform
      • Deep
    • 16.3 Overriding plate
    • 16.4 The magic of biplate
    • 16.5 Exercises – Uniplate
  • 17 generic-lens
    • 17.1 Generic Lenses
      • Record Fields
      • Positional Lenses
      • Typed Lenses
      • Altogether Now
      • Subtype Lenses
    • 17.2 Generic Traversals
      • Types Traversal
      • Parameter Traversals
    • 17.3 Generic Prisms
      • Constructor Prisms
      • Typed Prisms
    • 17.4 Exercises – Generic Lens
  • 18 Appendices
    • 18.1 Optic Composition Table
    • 18.2 Optic Compatibility Chart
    • 18.3 Operator Cheat Sheet
      • Legend for Getters
      • Legend for Setters/Modifiers
    • 18.4 Optic Ingredients
  • 19 Answers to Exercises
    • 19.1 Optic Anatomy
    • 19.2 Lens Actions
    • 19.3 Records Part One
    • 19.4 Records Part Two
      • Laws
    • 19.5 Virtual Fields
    • 19.6 Self-Correcting Lenses
    • 19.7 Polymorphic Lenses
    • 19.8 Lens Composition
    • 19.9 Operators
    • 19.10 Simple Folds
    • 19.11 Writing Custom Folds
    • 19.12 Querying Using Folds
    • 19.13 Higher Order Folds
    • 19.14 Filtering
    • 19.15 Simple Traversals
    • 19.16 Traversal Actions
    • 19.17 Custom Traversals
    • 19.18 Traversal Laws
    • 19.19 partsOf
    • 19.20 Indexable Structures
    • 19.21 Custom Indexed Structures
    • 19.22 Missing Values
    • 19.23 Prisms
    • 19.24 Custom Prisms
    • 19.25 Prism Laws
    • 19.26 Intro to Isos
    • 19.27 Projected Isos
    • 19.28 Iso Laws
    • 19.29 Indexed Optics
    • 19.30 Index Filters
    • 19.31 Custom Indexed Optics
    • 19.32 Type Errors
      • First Foe: Level 1 Lenslion
      • Level 2 Tuplicant
      • Level 3 Settersiren
      • Level 4 Composicore
      • Level 5 Foldasaurus
      • Level 6 Foldasaurus
      • Level 7 Traversacula
    • 19.33 Kubernetes API
      • BONUS Questions
    • 19.34 Uniplate
    • 19.35 Generic Lens
  • 20 Thanks
    • 20.1 Patreon Supporters
    • 20.2 Book Cover
  • Notes

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