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253 lines
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![npm downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/monocle-ts.svg)
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# Motivation
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(Adapted from [monocle site](https://www.optics.dev/Monocle/))
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Modifying immutable nested object in JavaScript is verbose which makes code difficult to understand and reason about.
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Let's have a look at some examples:
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```ts
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interface Street {
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num: number
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name: string
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}
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interface Address {
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city: string
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street: Street
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}
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interface Company {
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name: string
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address: Address
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}
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interface Employee {
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name: string
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company: Company
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}
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```
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Let’s say we have an employee and we need to upper case the first character of his company street name. Here is how we
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could write it in vanilla JavaScript
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```ts
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const employee: Employee = {
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name: 'john',
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company: {
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name: 'awesome inc',
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address: {
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city: 'london',
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street: {
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num: 23,
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name: 'high street'
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}
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}
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}
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}
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const capitalize = (s: string): string => s.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1)
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const employeeCapitalized = {
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...employee,
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company: {
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...employee.company,
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address: {
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...employee.company.address,
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street: {
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...employee.company.address.street,
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name: capitalize(employee.company.address.street.name)
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}
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}
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}
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}
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```
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As we can see copy is not convenient to update nested objects because we need to repeat ourselves. Let's see what could
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we do with `monocle-ts`
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```ts
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import { Lens } from 'monocle-ts'
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const company = Lens.fromProp<Employee>()('company')
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const address = Lens.fromProp<Company>()('address')
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const street = Lens.fromProp<Address>()('street')
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const name = Lens.fromProp<Street>()('name')
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```
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`compose` takes two `Lenses`, one from `A` to `B` and another one from `B` to `C` and creates a third `Lens` from `A` to
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`C`. Therefore, after composing `company`, `address`, `street` and `name`, we obtain a `Lens` from `Employee` to
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`string` (the street name). Now we can use this `Lens` issued from the composition to modify the street name using the
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function `capitalize`
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```ts
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const capitalizeName = company.compose(address).compose(street).compose(name).modify(capitalize)
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assert.deepStrictEqual(capitalizeName(employee), employeeCapitalized)
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```
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You can use the `fromPath` API to avoid some boilerplate
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```ts
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import { Lens } from 'monocle-ts'
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const name = Lens.fromPath<Employee>()(['company', 'address', 'street', 'name'])
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const capitalizeName = name.modify(capitalize)
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assert.deepStrictEqual(capitalizeName(employee), employeeCapitalized) // true
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```
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Here `modify` lift a function `string => string` to a function `Employee => Employee`. It works but it would be clearer
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if we could zoom into the first character of a `string` with a `Lens`. However, we cannot write such a `Lens` because
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`Lenses` require the field they are directed at to be _mandatory_. In our case the first character of a `string` is
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optional as a `string` can be empty. So we need another abstraction that would be a sort of partial Lens, in
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`monocle-ts` it is called an `Optional`.
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```ts
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import { Optional } from 'monocle-ts'
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import { some, none } from 'fp-ts/Option'
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const firstLetterOptional = new Optional<string, string>(
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(s) => (s.length > 0 ? some(s[0]) : none),
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(a) => (s) => (s.length > 0 ? a + s.substring(1) : s)
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)
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const firstLetter = company.compose(address).compose(street).compose(name).asOptional().compose(firstLetterOptional)
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assert.deepStrictEqual(firstLetter.modify((s) => s.toUpperCase())(employee), employeeCapitalized)
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```
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Similarly to `compose` for lenses, `compose` for optionals takes two `Optionals`, one from `A` to `B` and another from
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`B` to `C` and creates a third `Optional` from `A` to `C`. All `Lenses` can be seen as `Optionals` where the optional
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element to zoom into is always present, hence composing an `Optional` and a `Lens` always produces an `Optional`.
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# TypeScript compatibility
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The stable version is tested against TypeScript 3.5.2, but should run with TypeScript 2.8.0+ too
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| `monocle-ts` version | required `typescript` version |
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| -------------------- | ----------------------------- |
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| 2.0.x+ | 3.5+ |
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| 1.x+ | 2.8.0+ |
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**Note**. If you are running `< typescript@3.0.1` you have to polyfill `unknown`.
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You can use [unknown-ts](https://github.com/gcanti/unknown-ts) as a polyfill.
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# Documentation
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- [API Reference](https://gcanti.github.io/monocle-ts/)
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## Experimental modules (version `2.3+`)
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Experimental modules (\*) are published in order to get early feedback from the community.
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The experimental modules are **independent and backward-incompatible** with stable ones.
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(\*) A feature tagged as _Experimental_ is in a high state of flux, you're at risk of it changing without notice.
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From `monocle@2.3+` you can use the following experimental modules:
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- `Iso`
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- `Lens`
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- `Prism`
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- `Optional`
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- `Traversal`
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- `At`
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- `Ix`
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which implement the same features contained in `index.ts` but are `pipe`-based instead of `class`-based.
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Here's the same examples with the new API
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```ts
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interface Street {
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num: number
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name: string
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}
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interface Address {
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city: string
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street: Street
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}
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interface Company {
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name: string
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address: Address
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}
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interface Employee {
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name: string
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company: Company
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}
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const employee: Employee = {
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name: 'john',
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company: {
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name: 'awesome inc',
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address: {
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city: 'london',
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street: {
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num: 23,
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name: 'high street'
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}
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}
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}
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}
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const capitalize = (s: string): string => s.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1)
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const employeeCapitalized = {
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...employee,
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company: {
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...employee.company,
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address: {
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...employee.company.address,
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street: {
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...employee.company.address.street,
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name: capitalize(employee.company.address.street.name)
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}
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}
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}
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}
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import * as assert from 'assert'
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import * as L from 'monocle-ts/Lens'
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import { pipe } from 'fp-ts/function'
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const capitalizeName = pipe(
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L.id<Employee>(),
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L.prop('company'),
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L.prop('address'),
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L.prop('street'),
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L.prop('name'),
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L.modify(capitalize)
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)
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assert.deepStrictEqual(capitalizeName(employee), employeeCapitalized)
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import * as O from 'monocle-ts/Optional'
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import { some, none } from 'fp-ts/Option'
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const firstLetterOptional: O.Optional<string, string> = {
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getOption: (s) => (s.length > 0 ? some(s[0]) : none),
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set: (a) => (s) => (s.length > 0 ? a + s.substring(1) : s)
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}
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const firstLetter = pipe(
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L.id<Employee>(),
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L.prop('company'),
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L.prop('address'),
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L.prop('street'),
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L.prop('name'),
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L.composeOptional(firstLetterOptional)
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)
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assert.deepStrictEqual(
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pipe(
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firstLetter,
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O.modify((s) => s.toUpperCase())
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)(employee),
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employeeCapitalized
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)
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```
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