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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming - Second Edition

By : Federico Kereki
Book Image

Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming - Second Edition

By: Federico Kereki

Overview of this book

Functional programming is a paradigm for developing software with better performance. It helps you write concise and testable code. To help you take your programming skills to the next level, this comprehensive book will assist you in harnessing the capabilities of functional programming with JavaScript and writing highly maintainable and testable web and server apps using functional JavaScript. This second edition is updated and improved to cover features such as transducers, lenses, prisms and various other concepts to help you write efficient programs. By focusing on functional programming, you’ll not only start to write but also to test pure functions, and reduce side effects. The book also specifically allows you to discover techniques for simplifying code and applying recursion for loopless coding. Gradually, you’ll understand how to achieve immutability, implement design patterns, and work with data types for your application, before going on to learn functional reactive programming to handle complex events in your app. Finally, the book will take you through the design patterns that are relevant to functional programming. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed your JavaScript skills and have gained knowledge of the essential functional programming techniques to program effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Technical Requirements
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Bibliography

Questions

10.1. Freezing by proxying: In the Chaining and fluent interfaces section of Chapter 8, Connecting Functions – Pipelining and Composition, we used a proxy to get operations in order to provide automatic chaining. By using a proxy for setting and deleting operations, you may do your own freezing (if, instead of setting an object's property, you'd rather throw an exception). Implement a freezeByProxy(obj) function that will apply this idea to forbid all kinds of updates (adding, modifying, or deleting properties) for an object. Remember to work recursively in case an object has other objects as properties!

10.2. Inserting into a list, persistently: In the Working with lists section, we described how an algorithm could add a new node to a list, but in a persistent way, by creating a new list. Implement an insertAfter(list, newKey, oldKey) function...