Practical FP in Scala: A hands-on approach
Practical FP in Scala: A hands-on approach
About the Book
Practical FP in Scala: A hands-on approach, is a book for intermediate to advanced Scala developers. Aimed at those who understand functional effects, referential transparency and the benefits of functional programming to some extent but who are missing some pieces to put all these concepts together to build a large application in a time-constrained manner.
Throughout the chapters we will design, architect and develop a complete stateful application serving an API via HTTP, accessing a database and dealing with cached data, using the best practices and best functional libraries available in the Cats ecosystem.
You will also learn about common design patterns such as managing state, error handling and anti-patterns, all accompanied by clear examples. Furthermore, at the end of the book, we will dive into some advanced concepts such as MTL, Classy Optics and Typeclass derivation.
The book is supplemented by two Scala projects:
- Shopping Cart application: https://github.com/gvolpe/pfps-shopping-cart
- Standalone examples: https://github.com/gvolpe/pfps-examples
Got some feedback? Please email the author here: pfpscala at gmail dot com.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Dependency version
- Prerequisites
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How to read this book
- Conventions used in this book
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1. Chapter 1: Shopping Cart project
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1.1 Business requirements
- 1.1.1 Third-party Payments API
- 1.1.2 Identifying the domain
- 1.1.3 Identifying Http endpoints
- 1.2 Architecture
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1.3 Technical stack
- 1.3.1 A note on Cats Effect
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1.1 Business requirements
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2. Chapter 2: Design patterns
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2.1 Strongly-typed functions
- 2.1.1 Value classes
- 2.1.2 Newtypes
- 2.1.3 Refinement types
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2.2 Encapsulating state
- 2.2.1 In-memory counter
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2.3 Sequential vs concurrent state
- 2.3.1 State Monad
- 2.3.2 Atomic Ref
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2.4 Shared state
- 2.4.1 Regions of sharing
- 2.4.2 Leaky state
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2.5 Anti-patterns
- 2.5.1 Seq: a base trait for sequences
- 2.5.2 About Monad Transformers
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2.6 Error handling
- 2.6.1 MonadError and ApplicativeError
- 2.6.2 Either Monad
- 2.6.3 Classy prisms
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2.1 Strongly-typed functions
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3. Chapter 3: Tagless final encoding
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3.1 Algebras
- 3.1.1 Naming conventions
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3.2 Interpreters
- 3.2.1 Building interpreters
- 3.3 Programs
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3.4 Implicit vs explicit parameters
- 3.4.1 Achieving modularity
- 3.4.2 Implicit convenience
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3.1 Algebras
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4. Chapter 4: Business logic
- 4.1 Identifying algebras
- 4.2 Data access and storage
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4.3 Defining programs
- 4.3.1 Checkout
- 4.3.2 Retrying effects
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5. Chapter 5: HTTP layer
- 5.1 A server is a function
- 5.2 HTTP Routes #1
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5.3 Authentication
- 5.3.1 JWT Auth
- 5.4 HTTP Routes #2
- 5.5 Composing routes
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5.6 Middlewares
- 5.6.1 Compositionality
- 5.7 Running server
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5.8 Entity codecs
- 5.8.1 JSON codecs
- 5.8.2 Validation
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5.9 HTTP Client
- 5.9.1 Payment client
- 5.9.2 Creating a client
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6. Chapter 6: Persistent layer
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6.1 Skunk & Doobie
- 6.1.1 Session Pool
- 6.1.2 Queries
- 6.1.3 Commands
- 6.1.4 Interpreters
- 6.1.5 Streaming & Pagination
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6.2 Redis for Cats
- 6.2.1 Connection
- 6.2.2 Interpreters
- 6.3 Blocking operations
- 6.4 Health check
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6.1 Skunk & Doobie
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7. Chapter 7: Testing
- 7.1 Functional test suite
- 7.2 Generators
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7.3 Business logic
- 7.3.1 Happy path
- 7.3.2 Empty cart
- 7.3.3 Unreachable payment client
- 7.3.4 Recovering payment client
- 7.3.5 Failing orders
- 7.3.6 Failing cart deletion
- 7.4 Http routes
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7.5 Integration tests
- 7.5.1 Resource allocation
- 7.5.2 Postgres
- 7.5.3 Redis
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8. Chapter 8: Assembly
- 8.1 Logging
- 8.2 Configuration
- 8.3 Modules
- 8.4 Resources
- 8.5 Main
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9. Chapter 9: Deploying
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9.1 Docker image
- 9.1.1 Optimizing image
- 9.1.2 Run it locally
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9.2 Continuous Integration
- 9.2.1 Dependencies
- 9.2.2 CI build
- 9.2.3 Furthermore
- 9.3 Summary
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9.1 Docker image
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10. Chapter 10: Advanced techniques
- 10.1 Tagless Final plugin
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10.2 MTL (Monad Transformers Library)
- 10.2.1 Managing state
- 10.2.2 Accessing context
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10.3 Classy optics
- 10.3.1 Lenses
- 10.3.2 Prisms
- 10.3.3 Classy lenses
- 10.3.4 Classy prisms
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10.4 Typeclass derivation
- 10.4.1 Kinds
- 10.4.2 Concrete types
- 10.4.3 Higher-kinded types
- 10.4.4 Higher-order functors
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10.5 Effectful streams
- 10.5.1 Concurrency
- 10.5.2 Resource safety
- 10.5.3 Interruption
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