Monadic Life!

Repo is used to demo how beneficial Monads can be!

Monads and FP

1. Introduction Slide -> Tentatively "Monads and Functional Programming"

• The Agenda of the FEDeration.

1. Disclaimer

• I am not a functional expert, these are just some things I've learnt and find cool! If anyone loves this topic and would like to inject please do!

1. What is a Functor?

• Explain what a functor and what makes it so.
• Explain the functor laws.
• Give an example of a functor and how it obeys these laws.

1. What is a Monad?

• Explain what makes a functor a Monad.
• Explain flatMap.
• Give an example of a flatMap.

1. Let's write our own functor and Monad.

• Create the box.js

  const Box = (x) => ({
    map: f => Box(f(x)),
    flatMap: f => f(x),
    inspect: () => `Box(${x})`
  })

• Show how we can chain these together and make our code more testable and easier to read.

1. Great! So how can we apply this in a practical sense?