Monix

Asynchronous, Reactive Programming for Scala and Scala.js.

• Overview
• Usage
  • Library dependency (sbt)
  • Sub-projects
• Documentation
• Contributing
• Adopters
• License

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 interact cleanly 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, and is one of the parents and implementors of Cats Effect.

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

Highlights:

• exposes the kick-ass Observable, Iterant, Task, IO[E, A], and Coeval data types, along with all the support they need
• modular, split into multiple sub-projects, only use what you need
• designed for true asynchronicity, running on both the JVM and Scala.js
• excellent test coverage, code quality, and API documentation as a primary project policy

Usage

• Use monix-jvm-app-template.g8 for quickly getting started with a Monix-driven app
• See monix-sample for a project exemplifying Monix used both on the server and on the client.

Library dependency (sbt)

For the stable release (compatible with Cats, and Cats-Effect 2.x):

libraryDependencies += "io.monix" %% "monix" % "3.4.1"

Sub-projects

Monix 3.x is modular by design. See the sub-modules graph:

You can pick and choose:

• monix-execution exposes the low-level execution environment, or more precisely Scheduler, Cancelable, Atomic, Local, CancelableFuture and Future based abstractions from monix-catnap.
• monix-catnap exposes pure abstractions built on top of the Cats-Effect type classes; depends on monix-execution, 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

Documentation

See:

• Website: Monix.io
• Documentation (current) (3.x)
• Documentation for 2.x (old)
• Presentations

API Documentation:

• Current
• 3.4
• 2.3
• 1.2

(contributions are welcome)

Related:

• Typelevel Cats
• Typelevel Cats-Effect

Contributing

The Monix project welcomes contributions from anybody wishing to participate. You must license all code or documentation provided with the Apache License 2.0, see LICENSE.txt.

You must 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:

Adopters

Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of companies that use Monix in production. Don't see yours? Submit a PR ❤️

• PITS Global Data Recovery Services
• Abacus
• Agoda
• AVSystem
• commercetools
• Coya
• DigitalGenius
• E.ON Connecting Energies
• eBay Inc.
• Eloquentix
• Hypefactors
• Iterators
• Netflix
• Sony Electronics
• Tinkoff
• Zalando
• Zendesk

License

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