Functors and Monads: Wrapping Your Data (Not Your Head) Around Them

Why these words sound scarier than they are If you&rsquo;ve ever Googled &ldquo;what is a monad&rdquo;, you&rsquo;ve probably landed on a Stack Overflow answer that says something like &ldquo;a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors&rdquo; and immediately closed the tab.&#xA;Fair.&#xA;Here&rsquo;s the thing: you don&rsquo;t need category theory to use functors and monads. You need…