[samhh]

fp-ts is hard to learn. Its docs, whilst improving, aren't great and it's applying pure functional concepts to a language which isn't designed for it. The outcome is surprisingly good but it's hard to understand as a newcomer why certain design decisions have been made, or what patterns are and are not idiomatic.

I'd recommend learning Haskell in your free time. It's a major paradigm shift but once it clicks you'll find it a lot easier to translate those concepts into fp-ts.

I went through this journey a couple of years ago, and now write heavy fp-ts code full-time - including maintaining fp-ts-std[1] - as well as some paid Haskell gigs on the side. Do feel free to reach out if you want any guidance at all, you'll find my email on my personal site[2]. The FP Slack is also a great place to ask for help with anything FP, including fp-ts - if you send me an email I can have an invitation sent to you.

[1]: https://github.com/samhh/fp-ts-std [2]: https://samhh.com