This week in #Scala (Nov 30, 2020)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

This blog aims to keep you up to date with the latest news from the world of Scala and Reactive programming.

It has been a week since the previous #ThisWeekInScala so let’s catch up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…

New Content

• Scala Developers’ Survey
• RxTags — simple reactive ScalaJS
• Functional pancakes
• I find context functions in Scala 3 confusing as hell
• Login Strategy for Play framework that serves React bundled index.html as served assets.
• Coursier — Crash Course
• Enhanced Package Prefixes — IntelliJ Scala Plugin Blog
• MainArgs: a small, dependency-free library for command line argument parsing in Scala
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Genericioust of Them All?
• Alternative(s) to Scanamo for DynamoDB
• What are alternatives to using monad transformers?
• Check out Weehawken-Lang1
• Scala app fails after succeeding on Heroku?
• The reason for polymorphic effects
• Best practice for natural Ordering
• JSON 2 Scala Case Class (online tool)
• Managing Database Migrations in Scala
• One year with Akka 2.6
• Event-driven railway network based on Pulsar
• Tagless Final — Part 15.2 — trust, but verify (The Big Rewrite)
• Programming in Scala for beginners — week 9: sets and key-value tables
• Scala Love 2021 CFP is open!

Releases

• sbt 1.4.4 released
• bazelbuild/rules_scala supports scala 2.13 now
• scalajs-react 1.7.7 released

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