Acknowledgements

The projects and ideas that shaped cable's contract and runtime design.

cable draws on the TypeScript ecosystem. The projects below shaped parts of its API and runtime design.

tRPC

tRPC inspired cable’s contract-shaped procedure API. cable takes particular inspiration from its builder-based procedures, inferred client inputs and outputs, and reusable procedure builders for shared middleware. The official tRPC documentation describes the project as end-to-end type-safe APIs without code generation.

The tRPC source repository is available under the MIT license.

cable applies those ideas in a separate contract package and adds durable, typed channels for actor runtimes. cable’s implementation and protocol are its own work. This page records design influence, not code provenance or an endorsement.

Effect

The optional @cablejs/effect package is informed by Effect and its source repository, available under the MIT license. Effect’s typed error model and explicit resource and dependency ownership helped shape this integration. The core library remains Promise-based, and the Effect adapter keeps runtime ownership with the configured cable host and its layers.

Effect and tRPC are independent projects. Their names and marks belong to their respective maintainers.