Several breaking changes happened during the pre-releases of Folktale 2, these ensure that the future versions don’t need to break anything or live with things that turned out to be bad design decisions. This lists these changes, and how to migrate.

Contents

• Package re-organisation
• Core.ADT
• Alpha versions

Package re-organisation

Most modules in the Base package were moved to allow planned modules to be added without problems.

• folktale/data/future is now folktale/concurrency/future.
• folktale/data/task is now folktale/concurrency/task.
• folktale/data/conversions is now folktale/conversions.
• folktale/core/fantasy-land is now folktale/fantasy-land.
• folktale/data/maybe is now folktale/maybe.
• folktale/data/result is now folktale/result.
• folktale/data/validation is now folktale/validation.

There were no behaviour or name changes in the modules above, so the only thing that needs to change is your import expression.

Core.ADT

In the beginning the core/adt module was used as a synonymous for tagged unions. To support both sum and product types in the future this has changed a bit.

The folktale/core/adt module is now folktale/adt/union module, which specifies that it creates union types. The data function was also renamed to union, and the ADT namespace was renamed to Union — although this one was used mostly internally.

Previously:

const { data, derivations } = require('folktale/core/adt');

const List = data('List', {
  Empty(){ },
  Cons(value, rest) {
    return { value, rest };
  }
}).derive(derivations.Equality);

Now:

const { union, derivations } = require('folktale/adt/union');

const List = union('List', {
  Empty(){ },
  Cons(value, rest) {
    return { value, rest };
  }
}).derive(derivations.Equality);

Alpha versions

Quite a few breaking changes happened during the alpha releases in Folktale. Please see the Folktale changelog for the details.