Effect best practices and patterns — https://www.effect.solutions

Living Document: Opinionated collection exploiting Cunningham's Law. Disagree? Open an issue

Curated Effect TypeScript patterns for common scenarios — error handling, services, layers, testing, and more. For humans and AI agents.

Website: Browse at effect.solutions

CLI: Access docs offline

bunx effect-solutions list              # List all topics
bunx effect-solutions show http-clients # Show specific topic
bunx effect-solutions search error      # Search topics

• Practical patterns - Real-world solutions, not just theory
• Type-safe examples - All code validated with Effect LSP
• AI-friendly - Structured for LLM consumption via CLI
• Community-driven - Open issues to suggest/debate patterns

Error handling

import { Effect } from "effect"

Effect.gen(function* () {
  const user = yield* findUser(id).pipe(
    Effect.catchTag("NotFound", () => Effect.succeed(null))
  )
})

HTTP client setup

import { Effect, HttpClient } from "effect"
import { FetchHttpClient } from "@effect/platform"

const program = Effect.gen(function* () {
  const http = yield* HttpClient.HttpClient
  const result = yield* http.get("/api/users")
})

program.pipe(
  Effect.provide(FetchHttpClient.layer)
)

See effect.solutions for full patterns and rationale.

1. Find a missing pattern or disagree with a recommendation
2. Open an issue to discuss
3. Submit PR with pattern + tests
4. Create changeset: bun scripts/changeset-named.ts "description"

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details and CLAUDE.md for development workflow.

1. Apply changesets and bump versions: bun run version (creates tag vX.Y.Z).
2. Push the tag/commit to GitHub.
3. The Release workflow builds multi-arch CLI binaries and runs changeset publish to publish all packages to npm.

• effect-solutions - CLI for local docs
• Website at effect.solutions

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