Monad - FunFunFunction #21

I like how mpj explains it. Monad - FunFunFunction #21 [VIDEO] Furthermore, the creator of Elm has a fun explanation too. Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On [LINK] More serious computer scientist explains monads in the following. Erik Meijer: Functional Programming [LINK] and here too [LINK]

A nomad is something that goes "nom!" ;) A monad is basically an function, in the algebra sense, that will take a set of input, and map it to a different output. That's the most simple definition I can give without getting into the math, and it's been a minute since I've really gotten into Group theory. Maybe through a Haskell tutorial for some hands-on guidance? [LINK] [VIDEO]

Here's a half baked explanation, as in just the flatmap part. map is understood in javascript. So you 'just' need to make the leap to flatmap. Which is mapping something and flattening the result. So still you need to learn is what flatten is. But that's not too hard to learn. Try the funfunfunction video [0] [0]: [VIDEO]

I read this example years ago, and it didn't clear anything up for me. After half a year of trying to understand monads, I saw a video by MPJ/Funfunfunction [0] and it finally made sense. [0] [VIDEO]