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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming

Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming - Third Edition

By : Federico Kereki
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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming

Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming

4.6 (13)
By: Federico Kereki

Overview of this book

Functional programming is a programming paradigm that uses functions for developing software. This book is filled with examples that enable you to leverage the latest JavaScript and TypeScript versions to produce modern and clean code, as well as teach you to how apply functional programming techniques to develop more efficient algorithms, write more concise code, and simplify unit testing. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in functional programming to produce shorter, clearer, and testable programs. You’ll begin by getting to grips with writing and testing pure functions, reducing side effects, as well as other key features to make your applications functional in nature. The book specifically explores techniques to simplify coding, apply recursion, perform high-level coding, learn ways to achieve immutability, implement design patterns, and work with data types. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the practical programming skills needed to confidently enhance your applications by adding functional programming to wherever it’s most suitable.
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Specifying data types

Even though JavaScript is a dynamic language, without static or explicit typing declarations and controls, it doesn’t mean you can simply ignore types. Even if the language doesn’t allow you to specify the types of your variables or functions, you still work—even if only in your head—with types. Specifying types has advantages, as follows:

  • TypeScript can detect compile-time errors, avoiding many bugs.
  • It will help if you move from JavaScript to a more functional language, such as Elm (see elm-lang.org).
  • It serves as documentation that lets future developers understand what type of arguments they must pass to the function and what type it will return. All the functions in the Ramda library are documented in this way.
  • It will also help us with the functional data structures we will cover later in this section, where we will examine a way of dealing with structures, similar to what you do in fully functional languages...
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