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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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All about functions

Let’s start with a short review of functions in JavaScript and their relationship to FP concepts. We will begin with something that we mainly mentioned in the Functions as first-class objects section of Chapter 1, Becoming Functional, and again in a couple of places in Chapter 2, Thinking Functionally, and then go on to several considerations about their usage in actual coding. In particular, we’ll be looking at the following:

  • Some basic concepts about lambda calculus, which is the theoretical basis for FP
  • Arrow functions, which are the most direct translation of lambda calculus into JavaScript
  • Using functions as first-class objects, a key concept in FP

Of lambdas and functions

In lambda calculus terms, a function can look like λx.2*x. The understanding is that the variable after the λ character (the Greek letter lambda in lowercase) is the parameter for the function, and the expression after the dot is where you...

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