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Hands-On Functional Programming with TypeScript

By : Remo H. Jansen
Book Image

Hands-On Functional Programming with TypeScript

By: Remo H. Jansen

Overview of this book

Functional programming is a powerful programming paradigm that can help you to write better code. However, learning functional programming can be complicated, and the existing literature is often too complex for beginners. This book is an approachable introduction to functional programming and reactive programming with TypeScript for readers without previous experience in functional programming with JavaScript, TypeScript , or any other programming language. The book will help you understand the pros, cons, and core principles of functional programming in TypeScript. It will explain higher order functions, referential transparency, functional composition, and monads with the help of effective code examples. Using TypeScript as a functional programming language, you’ll also be able to brush up on your knowledge of applying functional programming techniques, including currying, laziness, and immutability, to real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you will be confident when it comes to using core functional and reactive programming techniques to help you build effective applications with TypeScript.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
5
The Runtime – Closures and Prototypes

Reactive programming

In this section, we are going to learn what the main differences are between functional programming and reactive programming as well as what principal benefits of reactive programming.

Functional programming versus functional-reactive programming

Functional programming and reactive programming should be considered as two different paradigms. Functional programming focuses on the interpretation of functions as mathematical functions—stateless and without side effects. On the other hand, reactive programming focuses on the propagation of changes as streams of events. The term functional-reactive programming is used to refer to a superset of reactive programming. Functional-reactive programming tries...