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+# @faergeek/monads
+
+Easy to use monads for JavaScript and TypeScript.
+
+Source code itself is pretty small, but it has jsdoc comments, which should
+serve as a more complete API documentation:
+
+- [Maybe](./src/maybe.ts)
+
+  An abstract box representing either presence or absence of a value.
+
+  A box with a value can be created with `Maybe.Some(<value>)`. `Maybe.None`
+  represents an absence of a value.
+
+  Read the comments in source file linked above for details.
+
+- [Async](./src/async.ts)
+
+  An abstract box representing asynchronous value state. Very similar to
+  `Maybe`, but has less operations. It exists to make sure that
+  presence/absence of a value and pending/ready state are easy to tell apart.
+  Very useful to convey loading state through any value transformations.
+
+  A box with a value ready to be used can be created with
+  `Async.Ready(<value>)`. `Async.Pending` represents a pending state meaning
+  there's no value yet.
+
+  Read the comments in source file linked above for details.
+
+- [Result](./src/result.ts)
+
+  An abstract box representing success or failure.
+
+  A box representing success can be created with `Result.Ok(<value>)`.
+  A box representing failure can be created with `Result.Err(<error>)`.
+
+  Read the comments in source file linked above for details.
+
+An example of using both `Async` and `Result` to represent different states of
+UI depending on API request result from a hook like SWR or React Query.
+
+First, we need to create a box, representing 3 states: pending, success and
+failure.
+
+```javascript
+// let's assume data is something like a number 21
+const { data, error, isLoading } = useSomeApiHook();
+
+const halfTheAnswer = data
+  ? Async.Ready(Result.Ok(data))
+  : isLoading
+    ? Async.Pending
+    : Async.Ready(Result.Err(error));
+```
+
+Then apply transformations with `map*` or `flatMap*` functions.
+
+Here we simply multiply the value by 2. But the same approach can be used to extract
+only some pieces of response data, transform them and pass to child components,
+all without loosing request state attached to it.
+
+```javascript
+const theAnswer = halfTheAnswer.mapReady(
+  // this function is only called if `halfTheAnswer` represents ready state
+  result =>
+    result.mapOk(
+      // this function is only called if `result` represents success state
+      x => x * 2,
+    ),
+);
+```
+
+And finally use the value, explicitly handling all cases. In this example, we
+simply render a piece of UI with something like React.
+
+```javascript
+return theAnswer.match({
+  Pending: () => <h1>Fetching the answer, please wait...</h1>,
+  Ready: result =>
+    result.match({
+      Err: error => <h1>Could not get the answer: {error.message}</h1>,
+      Ok: data => <h1>The Answer is {data}</h1>,
+    }),
+});
+```