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TypeScript 5 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition
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Within this chapter, we explored the fundamental concepts of functional programming and looked at some practical examples. Those concepts constitute the backbone of functional programming in general. We started by understanding the concepts of purity, function composition, and immutability. We noted practical examples of recursion and discovered the benefits of referential transparency. We made a distinction between declarative programming and imperative programming, highlighting their fundamental differences in approach.
We continued our exploration with practical functional programming constructs, starting with lenses, which form an abstraction over getters and setters. Finally, we looked at monads and their crucial helpfulness in constructing composable structures at scale.
Utilizing these concepts will support you in structuring your code in a pleasant, abstract way with scalability in mind. In the subsequent chapter, you will learn how reactive programming can help...