Functional JavaScript

Posted on 12 August 2018 by Michael Fogus

While some web developers dismiss JavaScript as a flawed language, this succinct book shows you how to make the best of it by practicing a functional style of JavaScript programming.Written by Michael Fogus a core contributor to Clojure and ClojureScript, and author of The Joy of Clojure Manning this book is packed with not only the how of functional programming, but also the why Each topic illustrated with pointed examples You ll also get a thorough reference to the Underscore.js library and its idioms, including ClosuresApplicative programmingLazinessImmutabilityHigher order functionsPurityCombinatorsCurrying and partial application Free Download [ Functional JavaScript ] Author [ Michael Fogus ] – kino-fada.fr It s interesting to see functional programming concepts through the lens of JavaScript The book does a good job of explaining the fundamentals in a clear, concise and hands on way I also like that it s pragmatic and advocates using the right abstraction for the problem at hand, which dependent on the problem can also mean an object oriented approach That s how I currently mostly value functional programming, as an additional tool technique on my tool belt, rather than something that replaces It s interesting to see functional programming concepts through the lens of JavaScript The book does a good job of explaining the fundamentals in a clear, concise and hands on way I also like that it s pragmatic and advocates using the right abstraction for the problem at hand, which dependent on the problem can also mean an object oriented approach T...It is a strange book The author is building a functional framework, by using Underscore and jQuery He explains some design patterns and concepts that you might need, and many that you wouldn t.The book is very good in convincing the reader that the fully functional approach in JS is not practical It s also convincing that immutability is the root of all evil How so, if the author says the opposite Many of the examples are far from the real world, hard to understand, and the explanations are It is a strange book The author is building a functional framework, by using Underscore and jQuery He explains som...This is a really solid book on functional programming in JavaScript Examples are in JavaScript but ideas can be easily taken to other languages I don t write much JavaScript but I m still glad I ve read this book.I honestly wishbooks were written in this manner Very straightforward and enlightening Might take longer to understand because of it s simplicity and lack of over explanation, but when you do understand it is very eye opening 5 stars is not enough.A detailed presentation of various functional programming patterns with code examples and context behind the approaches I would recommend for intermediate to advanced readers or those looking to develop a stronger functional mindset to work with libraries like React or Redux In Functional programming, functions are first class elements of the language and it decreases complexity by reducing the amount of state changes taking place in your programs copies of data are instead transformed I gai A detailed presentation of various functional programming patterns with code examples and context behind the approaches I would recommend for intermediate to advanced readers or those looking to develop a stronger functional mindset to work with libraries like React or Redux In Functional programming, functions are first class elements of the language and it decreases complexity by reducing the amount of state changes taking place in your progr...This was an ok book on functional programming The author isconcerned with using underscore to write interesting code than anything else I came away feeling that he could have done a much better job pitching functional programming and why it is better He brushes over some key facts that leaves his implementation feel super inefficient for many things despite him saying not to worry about it and code that I had to logic through muchthan if written in procedural classica...Fogus tried presenting functional programming concepts in very lucid and straight forward fashion and he is successful in that Though book uses Underscore.js extensively but has not discussed the same in depth If you are new to Functional programming but knows JavaScript, this book is for you Certainly this book is not for green horns.Functional JavaScript Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js has dedicated chapters for First Class Funct...I m sometimes asked what is functional programming and, as cliched as it may be I d do my best Morpheus Unfortunately, no one can be told what functional programming is You have to see it for yourself Functional Javascript is the book that lets you see it for yourself That the examples are in Javascript is certainly helpful, with JS rapidly becoming a programming lingua franca, but the quality of the e...It is nice introduction to functional programming FP , unfortunately I read couple of books from You Don t Know JS YDKJS series first YDKJS doesn t cover FP but this book uses some language features which I would call anti ...This book is a great introduction to functional programming The author goes to great length explaining the underpinnings of several functional programming paradigms The topics covered by this book are both language and library agnostic The author just happened to use Ja...

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12 August 2018

Michael Fogus