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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming

You're reading from   Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming In-depth guide for writing robust and maintainable JavaScript code in ES8 and beyond

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287440
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Federico Kereki Federico Kereki
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Questions

1.1. Classes as first-class objects: We saw that functions are first class objects, but did you know classes also are? (Though, of course, speaking of classes as objects does sound weird...) Study this example and see what makes it tick! Be careful: there's some purposefully weird code in it:

      const makeSaluteClass = term =>
class {
constructor(x) {
this.x = x;
}

salute(y) {
console.log(`${this.x} says "${term}" to ${y}`);
}
};

const Spanish = makeSaluteClass("HOLA");
new Spanish("ALFA").salute("BETA");
// ALFA says "HOLA" to BETA

new (makeSaluteClass("HELLO"))("GAMMA").salute("DELTA");
// GAMMA says "HELLO" to DELTA

const fullSalute = (c, x, y) => new c(x).salute(y);
const French = makeSaluteClass("BON JOUR");
fullSalute(French, "EPSILON", "ZETA");
// EPSILON says "BON JOUR" to ZETA

1.2. Factorial errors: Factorials, as we defined them, should only be calculated for non-negative integers. However, the function we wrote doesn't verify if its argument is valid or not. Can you add the necessary checks? Try to avoid repeated, redundant tests!

1.3. Climbing factorial: Our implementation of factorial starts multiplying by n, then by n-1, then n-2, and so on., in what we could call a downward fashion. Can you write a new version of the factorial function, that will loop upwards?

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