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Awesome Scala

A community driven list of useful Scala libraries, frameworks and software. This is not a catalog of all the libraries, just a starting point for your explorations. Inspired by awesome-python. Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesomeness list.

Also awesome is Scaladex, the searchable, tagged, and centralized index of Scala libraries.

Projects with over 500 stargazers are in bold.

Books

Essential Scala by Noel Welsh and Dave Gurnell - Essential Scala is aimed at experienced developers who are encountering Scala for the first time.
Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling by Debasish Ghosh
Functional Programming for Mortals by Sam Halliday
Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Runar Bjarnason
Functional Programming, Simplified (Scala edition) by Alvin Alexander
Get Programming with Scala by Daniela Sfregola - Tutorial-driven introduction to Scala
Practical FP in Scala: A hands-on approach by Gabriel Volpe
Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners
Pure functional HTTP APIs in Scala by Jens Grassel
Reactive Programming with Scala and Akka - Use the concepts of reactive programming to build distributed systems running on multiple nodes
Scala Cookbook by Alvin Alexander
Scala for the Impatient by Cay Horstmann - Covers most Scala features with short and easy to understand explainations.
Scala With Cats by Noel Welsh and Dave Gurnell - Learn system architecture and design using the techniques of modern functional programming with Cats
The Type Astronaut's Guide to Shapeless by Dave Gurnell
Zionomicon by John A. De Goes, Adam Fraser - Master the dark art of creating scalable, type-safe, concurrent apps with ZIO

Exercises

S-99 - Ninety-Nine Scala Problems
Scala Exercises - Brings the popular Scala Koans to the web. Offering hundreds of solvable exercises organized into 42 categories covering the basics of the Scala language.
Exercism - Scala Exercises - Community-driven Scala exercises.
Learn-by-doing functional programming course on Scala - Covers type classes, functors, applicatives, monads, monad transformers, free monad

Tutorials and courses

A Tour of Scala - Bite-sized introductions to some of the core language concepts.
Functional Programming in Scala - Coursera Specialization (5 courses) created by Martin Odersky et al. at the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne).
Resources by Dr. Mark Lewis >> Website | Youtube Playlists
Demos and Examples in Scala (Chinese) ★ 923 ⧗ 2 - repo of sample Scala library usage, written in Chinese
Introduction to programming with dependent types in Scala - Video Course by Dmytro Mitin
Scala Collections Cookbook - Scala collections introduction. written in Chinese.
Free Scala Courses - A curated list of free Scala courses.
Clean Architecture Example - A step-by-step guide to develop an application using Clean Architecture in Scala.

Commercial courses

Foundations of Functional Programming in Scala - a professional video course with exercises covering covers functional principles, custom IO (effects) and functional design.
Scala Algorithms - a collection of nearly 100 algorithms in pure-functional Scala with test cases, explanations and a web-based IDE. Built with http4s & Scala.js.

Community Members' Blogs

Company Blogs

Functional Works / Learn - Quality resources maintained by functional works
http://allaboutscala.com/
http://enear.github.io/
https://blog.knoldus.com/tag/scala/
https://blog.scalac.io/tags/Scala/
https://blog.softwaremill.com/tagged/scala
https://medium.com/disney-streaming/tagged/thisweekinscala
https://www.codacy.com/blog/
Scala Times - Weekly newsletter about scala
47 Degrees - Functional Programming news, updates, and more.

Podcasts

The Scala Logs - Interviewing developers, open source contributors, subject matter experts, and the like to talk about FP, Scala, open source, and their interests.
Scala Love - Podcast about the Scala Programming Language and its community
CoRecursive Interviews - In-depth Interviews with software developers, often on the subject of scala libraries and functional programming.
Scala for Fun & Profit - Interviewing Scala users and companies.

Communities

Scala Ukraine - Telegram chat of Ukrainian Scala Community

Misc.

Programming Community Curated Resources for Learning Scala
Scalera Blog - Blog about Scala language and its environment (howto's, good practices, tips,...). Weekly posts written in both spanish and english
Scala @LibHunt - A community driven list of useful Scala libraries, frameworks and software
List of Scala Online Courses - A list of free and paid Scala online courses by Classpert, An online course search and comparison website
Scala Days Conferences - A youtube channel that provides full fledged videos, recorded at Scala Days Conferences
CA Art - A small project aimed at learning Scala on intermediate level by experimenting with Cellular Automata