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# Announcing @neon/effect

**[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Neon announces @neon/effect, a new package providing Effect 4.0 bindings for the @neon/sdk. The package wraps the SDK's existing client with the same method names, returning Effects for API calls and Streams for paginated lists, while converting SDK errors into tagged errors handled via Effect.catchTag. It targets platforms that provision Postgres through Neon on behalf of their own users (e.g. Replit, v0, Vercel Marketplace, Laravel Cloud, Netlify DB), where coordinating asynchronous provisioning, retries, rate limits, timeouts and cancellation across a distributed system benefits from Effect's typed error handling and interruption model. The announcement notes Effect 4.0 launched live at a San Francisco meetup, brought the core package to zero runtime dependencies, and that the initial draft PR for @neon/effect was generated by an AI agent (Opus 5.5) and merged.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://neon.com/blog/announcing-neon-effect>

## Questions this post answers

### What is @neon/effect and what does it add to the Neon SDK?

@neon/effect is a package providing Effect 4.0 bindings for @neon/sdk, wrapping the same client methods and parameters but returning Effects instead of Promises and Streams instead of plain paginated lists. SDK errors become tagged errors catchable with Effect.catchTag, and the underlying SDK's retries and readiness polling still run, with timeout and interruption support via Effect.timeout or Fiber.interrupt. It requires Effect 4.

_Developers coordinating Postgres provisioning with Effect can track SDK integrations like this on daily.dev._

### Does @neon/effect require Effect 4 specifically?

Yes, @neon/effect requires Effect 4, the version of the Effect library that launched with the core package reduced to zero runtime dependencies, giving other libraries a lighter foundation to build on. The package was created shortly after Effect 4.0 was announced live at a San Francisco meetup.

_Teams adopting Effect 4 track version requirements for new library integrations on daily.dev._

### How does @neon/effect handle readiness polling timeouts during Postgres provisioning?

If a readiness deadline expires while provisioning a Neon resource, the resulting error carries the outstanding operations so the caller can resume waiting on them rather than losing track of in-progress work. The SDK's own retry and polling logic continues running underneath the Effect wrapper, and timeouts or interruption abort the in-flight HTTP request and stop the polling.

_Developers coordinating distributed provisioning across providers can follow Postgres tooling updates on daily.dev._

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