So far, we have seen how to use functions to work with or transform, other functions, to process data structures, or to create data types. Let's then finish this chapter by showing how a function can actually implement a data type by itself, becoming a sort of container of its own. In fact, this is a basic theoretical point of the lambda calculus (and if you want to learn more, look up Church Encoding and Scott Encoding), so we might very well say that we have come around to the point where we began this book, at the origins of Functional Programming!
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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming
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Overview of this book
Functional programming is a programming paradigm for developing software using functions. Learning to use functional programming is a good way to write more concise code, with greater concurrency and performance. The JavaScript language is particularly suited to functional programming.
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in functional programming with JavaScript to produce shorter, clearer, and testable programs.
You’ll delve into functional programming; including writing and testing pure functions, reducing side-effects, and other features to make your applications functional in nature.
Specifically, we’ll explore techniques to simplify coding, apply recursion for loopless coding, learn ways to achieve immutability, implement design patterns, and work with data types.
By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the JavaScript skills you need to program functional applications with confidence.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Becoming Functional - Several Questions
Thinking Functionally - A First Example
Starting Out with Functions - A Core Concept
Behaving Properly - Pure Functions
Programming Declaratively - A Better Style
Producing Functions - Higher-Order Functions
Transforming Functions - Currying and Partial Application
Connecting Functions - Pipelining and Composition
Designing Functions - Recursion
Ensuring Purity - Immutability
Implementing Design Patterns - The Functional Way
Building Better Containers - Functional Data Types
Bibliography
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