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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

Working with operators

In this section, we are going to learn how to use some functions known as operators, which allow us to manipulate observables in many different ways.

Pipe

In RxJS, observables have a method named pipe, which is very similar to the pipe operator in functional programming. When we pipe two functions, we generate a new function that passes the return of the first function as arguments to the second function in the pipe.

The idea is very similar in reactive programming. When we pipe an observable through an operator, we generate a new observable. The new observable passes each of the items in the original observable to an operator that transforms them into the items in the new sequence.

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