romaniakovlev / monix

Asynchronous, Reactive Programming for Scala and Scala.js.

Monix

Asynchronous, Reactive Programming for Scala and Scala.js.

Overview

Monix is a high-performance Scala / Scala.js library for composing asynchronous, event-based programs.

It started as a proper implementation of ReactiveX, with stronger functional programming influences and designed from the ground up for back-pressure and made to cleanly interact with Scala's standard library, compatible out-of-the-box with the Reactive Streams protocol. It then expanded to include abstractions for suspending side effects and for resource handling, being one of the parents and implementors of cats-effect.

A Typelevel project, Monix proudly exemplifies pure, typeful, functional programming in Scala, while making no compromise on performance.

Highlights:

• exposes the kick-ass Observable, Iterant, Task and Coeval data types, along with all the support they need
• modular, only use what you need
• designed for true asynchronicity, running on both the JVM and Scala.js
• really good test coverage, code quality and API documentation as a primary project policy

Usage

See monix-sample for a project exemplifying Monix used both on the server and on the client.

Dependencies

The packages are published on Maven Central.

• Stable release: 2.3.3
• Current release candidate: 3.0.0-RC2 (compatible with Cats-Effect 1.0.0)

For the 3.x series (that works with Cats 1.x and Cats-Effect 1.0.0):

libraryDependencies += "io.monix" %% "monix" % "3.0.0-RC2"

For the 2.x series:

libraryDependencies += "io.monix" %% "monix" % "2.3.3"

Sub-projects

Monix 3.x is modular by design, so you can pick and choose:

• monix-execution exposes the low-level execution environment, or more precisely Scheduler, Cancelable, Atomic and CancelableFuture; depends on Cats 1.x and Cats-Effect
• monix-eval exposes Task, Coeval; depends on monix-execution
• monix-reactive exposes Observable for modeling reactive, push-based streams with back-pressure; depends on monix-eval
• monix-tail exposes Iterant streams for purely functional pull based streaming; depends on monix-eval and makes heavy use of Cats-Effect
• monix provides all of the above

Versioning Scheme

The versioning scheme follows the Semantic Versioning (semver) specification, meaning that stable versions have the form $major.$minor.$patch, such that:

1. $major version updates make binary incompatible API changes
2. $minor version updates adds functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
3. $patch version updates makes backwards-compatible bug fixes

For development snapshots may be published to Sonatype at any time. Development versions have the form: $major.$minor.$patch-$hash (example 3.0.0-d3288bb).

The $hash is the 7 character git hash prefix of the commit from which the snapshot was published. Thus, "snapshots" can be used as repeatable upstream dependencies if you're feeling courageous. NO GUARANTEE is made for upgrades of development versions, use these at your own risk.

Documentation

See:

• Website: Monix.io
• Documentation for 3.x
• Documentation for 2.x
• Presentations

API Documentation:

• 3.0
• 2.3
• 1.2

(contributions are welcome)

Related:

• Typelevel Cats
• Typelevel Cats-Effect

Contributing

The Monix project welcomes contributions from anybody wishing to participate. All code or documentation that is provided must be licensed with the same license that Monix is licensed with (Apache 2.0, see LICENSE.txt).

People are expected to follow the Scala Code of Conduct when discussing Monix on GitHub, Gitter channel, or other venues.

Feel free to open an issue if you notice a bug, have an idea for a feature, or have a question about the code. Pull requests are also gladly accepted. For more information, check out the contributor guide.

If you'd like to donate in order to help with ongoing maintenance:

License

All code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENCE.txt.

Acknowledgements

YourKit supports the Monix project with its full-featured Java Profiler. YourKit, LLC is the creator YourKit Java Profiler and YourKit .NET Profiler, innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications.

Development of Monix has been initiated by Eloquentix engineers, with Monix being introduced at E.ON Connecting Energies, powering the next generation energy grid solutions.

Adopters

Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of companies that use Monix in production. Don't see yours? You can add it in a PR!

• Abacus
• commercetools
• eBay Inc.
• Sony Electronics
• Zalando