Functional JavaScript

ISBN-13: 9781449360726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 260 str.

Michael Fogus

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How can you overcome JavaScript language oddities and unsafe features? With this book, you ll learn how to create code that s beautiful, safe, and simple to understand and test by using JavaScript s functional programming support. Author Michael Fogus shows you how to apply functional-style concepts with Underscore.js, a JavaScript library that facilitates functional programming techniques. Sample code is available on GitHub at https: //github.com/funjs/book-source.Fogus helps you think in a functional way to help you minimize complexity in the programs you build. If you re a JavaScript programmer hoping to learn functional programming techniques, or a functional programmer looking to learn JavaScript, this book is the ideal introduction.

• Use applicative programming techniques with first-class functions
• Understand how and why you might leverage variable scoping and closures
• Delve into higher-order functions and learn how they take other functions as arguments for maximum advantage
• Explore ways to compose new functions from existing functions
• Get around JavaScript s limitations for using recursive functions
• Reduce, hide, or eliminate the footprint of state change in your programs
• Practice flow-based programming with chains and functional pipelines
• Discover how to code without using classes

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