Monocle vs ts-lite

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Monocle		ts-lite
	Project
5	Mentions	1
1,629	Stars	48
0.1%	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	0.0
2 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Scala	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Monocle

Posts with mentions or reviews of Monocle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.

Ref in cats-effect. When should I use it, and when should I not?
1 project | /r/scala | 9 Jul 2022

Without concurrency, using a Ref doesn't buy you anything over just using a var. If you want the benefits of immutability with an API that resembles mutability, you have to use something like Monocle.
Show HN: Monocle – bidirectional code generation library
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2022

A very popular Scala optics library is also called Monocle. I’ve been a happy user for a few years:
https://github.com/optics-dev/Monocle
Monocle 3 release candidate - a super useful and simple library for optics with poetic api
1 project | /r/scala | 1 Jun 2021

See example https://www.optics.dev/Monocle/
Monocle 3.0.0-M1 is released for Scala 2.13 and Scala 3
1 project | /r/scala | 19 Feb 2021
Monocle 3 Roadmap
3 projects | /r/scala | 21 Jan 2021

We always have work to do, for example to define scalfix rules to automate the migration https://github.com/optics-dev/Monocle/issues/1001

ts-lite

Posts with mentions or reviews of ts-lite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.

Show HN: Monocle – bidirectional code generation library
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2022

This is neat! I’m curious if you see this being extended for other languages, or the concept being applied in other projects?
As for similar concepts, several projects by builder.io have some overlap. Most notably Mitosis[1], but I’d be shocked if TS-Lite[2] isn’t using similar techniques. Potentially Qwik[3] as well but I’m not sure, I would have bet that’s using Mitosis but it looks like that’s the other way around.
1: https://github.com/BuilderIO/mitosis
2: https://github.com/BuilderIO/ts-lite/tree/main/packages/core
3: https://github.com/BuilderIO/qwik

What are some alternatives?

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openapi-preprocessor - An authoring tool for OpenAPI specifications

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escodegen - ECMAScript code generator

Scalaz - Principled Functional Programming in Scala

Babel (Formerly 6to5) - 🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.

Scala Graph - Graph for Scala is intended to provide basic graph functionality seamlessly fitting into the Scala Collection Library. Like the well known members of scala.collection, Graph for Scala is an in-memory graph library aiming at editing and traversing graphs, finding cycles etc. in a user-friendly way.

Scala Blitz - Scala framework for efficient sequential and data-parallel collections -