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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By : Andrew Caya
Book Image

Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By: Andrew Caya

Overview of this book

This book will get you started with the latest benchmarking, profiling and monitoring tools for PHP, MySQL and JavaScript using Docker-based technologies. From optimizing PHP 7 code to learning asynchronous programming, from implementing Modern SQL solutions to discovering Functional JavaScript techniques, this book covers all the latest developments in Faster Web technologies. You will not only learn to determine the best optimization strategies, but also how to implement them. Along the way, you will learn how to profile your PHP scripts with Blackfire.io, monitor your Web applications, measure database performance, optimize SQL queries, explore Functional JavaScript, boost Web server performance in general and optimize applications when there is nothing left to optimize by going beyond performance. After reading this book, you will know how to boost the performance of any Web application and make it part of what has come to be known as the Faster Web.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Faster Web – Getting Started
6
Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently
Index

Chapter 8. Functional JavaScript

The future of JavaScript will be functional. Indeed, many changes that were brought to the language in the last few years are allowing for easier and more efficient implementations when using functional programming techniques.

In this chapter, we will see how JavaScript is increasingly becoming a functional language and how this programming paradigm can be a vector for performance. We will learn how replacing overly complex code with simplified functional versions and how using immutability and tail-call optimization will help make JavaScript more efficient in the long run. Thus, we will cover the following points:

  • Simplifying functions
  • Functional programming techniques
  • More upcoming JavaScript features