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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming

You're reading from   Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming Write clean, robust, and maintainable web and server code using functional JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213069
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Federico Kereki Federico Kereki
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Technical Requirements
2. Becoming Functional - Several Questions FREE CHAPTER 3. Thinking Functionally - A First Example 4. Starting Out with Functions - A Core Concept 5. Behaving Properly - Pure Functions 6. Programming Declaratively - A Better Style 7. Producing Functions - Higher-Order Functions 8. Transforming Functions - Currying and Partial Application 9. Connecting Functions - Pipelining and Composition 10. Designing Functions - Recursion 11. Ensuring Purity - Immutability 12. Implementing Design Patterns - The Functional Way 13. Building Better Containers - Functional Data Types 14. Bibliography
15. Answers to Questions 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3, Starting Out with Functions – a Core Concept

3.1. Uninitialized object? The key is that we didn't wrap the returned object in parentheses, so JavaScript thinks the braces enclose the code to be executed. In this case, type is considered to be labeling a statement, which doesn't really do anything: it's an expression (t) that isn't used. Due to this, the code is considered valid, and since it doesn't have an explicit return statement, the implicit returned value is undefined. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/label for more on labels, and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions#Returning_object_literals for more on returning objects. The corrected code is as follows:

const simpleAction = t => ({
type: t;
});

3.2. Are arrows...

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