Cats: A new dedicated Cats ecosystem page(s)

[kailuowang]

The cats ecosystem has grown tremendously in the past couple of years.
We should build a page to help people better navigate the ecosystem.
I think we can start with one page with 2 sections:

1. a complete list of ecosystem libraries, we can start with a consolidated list from here, here, here and other existing lists.
2. a recipe list of how to do XXXXX (in cats ecosystem), for example,
   Q: "how do create a command line application? "
   A: follow this example that uses decline and IOApp from Cats.effect

[benkio]

Hi there,
I'm interested in picking up this one since is a first issue + not a high priority one.
Right now, I cannot compile the microsite because of #3599, but I think I can start anyway.
I have a couple of questions:

• Where do you think is the right place for the page on the site?
• Can we have a quick, first, groom about the content of the list at point 2?
  thank you :pray:

[kailuowang]

Thanks so much!
I am thinking, for the recipe list, we can start with a couple of examples as a good start for the community to contribute more (which we might be able to solicit on SNN regularly).
Some other quick examples I can think of (of course they might be expanded a bit).

• How to retry an effect? Take a look at Cats-retry
• How to properly do logging? Take a look at log4cats
• How to automatically poll data from source into memory? take a look at Mau

@ChristopherDavenport probably has more. ;)

[benkio]

Additional question :sweat_smile: , for the libraries list:

Do we want to unify all the projects and libraries using cats in a single place, and then go on the other pages and just put a link there, like the links you inserted above, or do the other way around (putting links to the other lists in this new page)?

I'm Asking because I think we should avoid duplication

[kailuowang]

IMO I wouldn't worry too much about the duplication across projects. A central place is useful searching libs in the ecosystem while each project might have their own reason to have a libraries list and they can decide if they want to link to the central one.

[ChristopherDavenport]

Here is a gist I wrote a little bit ago with my libraries available. If anyone reminds me I can check and add more when I inevitably end up creating more.

https://gist.github.com/ChristopherDavenport/5b900d471922b4da5de7a3dc51edd8d8

[benkio]

Great!
I will check that out ASAP to see if I miss some.
At the moment I'm using gists as well while waiting for the doc to be migrated 😉

Edit: I added the list of projects from @ChristopherDavenport 's gist. Now I'm at +150 projects listed :sweat_smile: Any suggestion on what to put into the _How to_ section is appreciated. We can also think to leave it open and update it incrementally :wink:

[benkio]

I share with you the screenshot of the first version of the page. Any feedback is appreciated.
I have just a couple of concerns:

• I feel we should wrap the head around the _How to_ section since right now it only has the Q/As @kailuowang suggested above.
• At the moment I created a standalone page that appears into the menu as well. Let me know if you want to put that in an existing menu item or whatever.

Thanks