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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)
1
Technical Requirements
14
Bibliography

Summary

In this chapter, we went over several ways of defining functions in JavaScript, focusing mainly on arrow functions, which have several advantages over standard functions, including being terser. We learned about the concept of currying (which we'll be revisiting later), considered some aspects of functions as first-class objects, and lastly, we considered several techniques that happen to be fully FP in concept. Rest assured that we'll be using everything in this chapter as the building blocks for more advanced techniques in the rest of the book; just wait and see!

In Chapter 4, Behaving Properly – Pure Functions, we will delve even more deeply into functions and learn about the concept of pure functions, which will lead us to an even better style of programming.