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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming - Third Edition

By : Federico Kereki
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Book Image

Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming - Third Edition

5 (1)
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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Who this book is for

This book is geared toward programmers with a good working knowledge of JavaScript (or, better yet, TypeScript) working either on the client side (browsers) or the server side (Node.js), who are interested in applying techniques to be able to write better, testable, understandable, and maintainable code. Some background in computer science (including, for example, data structures) and good programming practices will also come in handy. In this book, we’ll cover FP in a practical way, though, at times, we will mention some theoretical points.