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# effect
Effect is a library for building robust, maintainable, type-safe, and production grade applications in TypeScript.
The `effect` package is the core of the framework. It provides primitives for managing side effects, errors, concurrency, resources, and structured data, alongside a rich standard library.
> **Effect 4.x is a long-term support (LTS) release**, with at least three years of bug and security fixes. If you are upgrading from Effect 3.x, follow the [migration guide](https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/blob/main/MIGRATION.md).
## Installation
```sh
npm install effect
```
## Requirements
- **TypeScript 5.9 or newer.** TypeScript 7 is recommended for the best performance and compatibility with [Effect's TypeScript tooling](https://github.com/Effect-TS/tsgo#installation).
- **Node.js 18 or newer** when running Effect on Node.js.
- **Strict type-checking:** the `strict` flag must be enabled in your `tsconfig.json`:
```json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"strict": true
}
}
```
## Links
- [Website](https://effect.website): documentation, guides, and news.
- [Reference](https://effect.website/docs/v4/api/effect): API documentation for this package.
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/effect-ts): ask questions, share what you're building, and talk to the core team.
- [Community](https://effect.website/community-hub): meetups and events, or bring Effect to your own.
- [Issues](https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/issues): bug reports and feature requests.
## Let's talk
Whether your team is considering Effect, rolling it out, or already running it in production, we'd love to hear from you: what you're building, what works, and what you need from Effect next.
- **Talk to the maintainers.** Introduce your team on [Discord](https://discord.gg/effect-ts) or email [contact@effectful.co](mailto:contact@effectful.co). We're happy to connect privately on Slack or Discord for feedback and help with adoption.
- **Production support.** We're exploring how to better support teams running Effect in production. If your organization has specific support needs, let's discuss them.
- **Adoption help.** Our [adoption partners](https://effect.website/adoption-partners) offer implementation, consulting, team extension, training, and commercial support.
## Overview
The `effect` package is a collection of modules. Some of the core ones:
| Module | Description |
| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Effect | The core abstraction for managing side effects, concurrency, and error handling in a structured way. |
| Context | A lightweight dependency injection mechanism that enables passing services through computations without direct references. |
| Layer | A system for managing dependencies, allowing for modular and composable resource allocation. |
| Fiber | Lightweight virtual threads with resource-safe cancellation capabilities, enabling many features in Effect. |
| Stream | A powerful abstraction for handling asynchronous, event-driven data processing. |
| Schedule | A module for defining retry and repeat policies with composable schedules. |
| Scope | Manages the lifecycle of resources, ensuring proper acquisition and release. |
| Schema | A powerful library for defining, validating, and transforming structured data with type-safe encoding and decoding. |
In v4, functionality that previously lived in separate packages ships inside `effect` under the `effect/*` namespaces, including `http`, `http-api`, `rpc`, `cluster`, `workflow`, `cli`, `ai`, `sql`, and `reactivity`.