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Learn Scala Programming

You're reading from   Learn Scala Programming A comprehensive guide covering functional and reactive programming with Scala 2.13, Akka, and Lagom

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836302
Length 498 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Slava Schmidt Slava Schmidt
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to Scala 2.13 2. Understanding Types in Scala FREE CHAPTER 3. Deep Dive into Functions 4. Getting to Know Implicits and Type Classes 5. Property-Based Testing in Scala 6. Exploring Built-In Effects 7. Understanding Algebraic Structures 8. Dealing with Effects 9. Familiarizing Yourself with Basic Monads 10. A Look at Monad Transformers and Free Monad 11. An Introduction to the Akka and Actor Models 12. Building Reactive Applications with Akka Typed 13. Basics of Akka Streams 14. Project 1 - Building Microservices with Scala 15. Project 2 - Building Microservices with Lagom 16. Preparing the Environment and Running Code Samples 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reader monad

The State monad represents an external (to the definition of the logic) state, which needs to be taken into account and possibly modified. The Reader monad is similar in the taking into account part—it accepts an external context and passes it over unchanged to every computation down the queue. In terms of the global state we discussed during the examination of the state monad, the Reader will have access to read-only system properties. Because of this, the reader monad is often known as a mechanism for dependency injection—because it takes some outside configuration (not necessarily basic things like strings or numbers, but also possibly other complex components, database access mechanisms, network sockets, or other resources) and makes it available for the function it wraps.

Let's see how Reader is defined. We have already compared State and Reader...

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