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Deep Dive into Functional JavaScript [Video]

By : Zsolt Nagy
Book Image

Deep Dive into Functional JavaScript [Video]

By: Zsolt Nagy

Overview of this book

In this course, you will have an in-depth overview and the tools in your utility belt to write maintainable code in JavaScript. We will stick to the latest version of JavaScript in this course, ES2017. You don't have to know ES2017 to benefit from the course, as we will introduce the language constructs that we use during it. You will experience the benefits of functional programming even if your code is not purely functional. In this course, you will learn the building blocks that act as a utility belt in your arsenal, enabling you to write code that's easy to understand, extend, test, and debug. You will get hands-on practice on how to use currying, partial evaluation, map, reduce, filter, recursion, and other functional programming concepts in ES6.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 1
Introduction to Functional Programming
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Section 4
Benefits and Drawbacks of Functional Programming
We will summarize the advantages and disadvantages of functional programming, and we will also offset some of the disadvantages with some optimization techniques. - Identify four advantages of functional programming - Identify three disadvantages of functional programming, one of which is performance - Learn how to offset the performance drawback of functional programming with some optimization techniques