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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 and TypeScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610138
Length 614 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Federico Kereki Federico Kereki
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

The corrected code is as follows:

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

See developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/label for more on labels, and developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions#Returning_object_literals for more on returning objects.

3.2 Are arrows allowed? There would be no problems with useArguments2(), but with useArguments(), you would get...

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