Hardcore Functional Architecture Patterns in JavaScript Homomorphisms & Monads

Transcript from the "Homomorphisms & Monads" Lesson

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>> The only point that I want you to take from this is there are properties, and that's why we we strive to do this stuff. We have associativity, we have identity. There's a thing called a homomorphism, where we can actually take a monoid in and do a type transformation to another monoid.

[00:00:17] And the properties would still hold. And here's a just an example of a monoidal homomorphism. Where here we have a message. And then we're gonna parse that message from a string, and then we call MergeFrom. So it looks like what's happening here is, we can actually parse the message, and parse the other message and merge it.

[00:00:44] Or we can combine the messages and then parse it, and both are monoids. And we're able to make decisions on making things more efficient. By first combining them and then doing the type transformation, or combining them all, or doing the type transformation first and then combining them. Okay, Cayley's Theorem is pretty great, but we're not gonna deal with it.

[00:01:07] And monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors, you can think of chain as in nesting. So if I have a type within a type and I can flatten that type, that's a monoidal operation. We're combining them. So that's how hand wavy, kinda nutshell way, the monads are monoids.