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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 9, Designing Functions – Recursion

9.1. Into reverse: An empty string is reversed by simply doing nothing. To reverse a non-empty string, remove its first character, reverse the rest, and append the removed character at the end. For example, reverse("MONTEVIDEO") can be found by using reverse("ONTEVIDEO")+"M". In the same way, reverse("ONTEVIDEO") would be equal to reverse("NTEVIDEO")+"O", and so on:

const reverse = str =>
str.length === 0 ? "" : reverse(str.slice(1)) + str[0];

9.2. Climbing steps: Suppose we want to climb a ladder with n steps. We can do this in two ways:

  • Climbing one single step and then climbing an (n-1) steps ladder
  • Climbing two steps at once and then climbing an (n-2) steps ladder

So, if we call ladder(n) the number of ways to climb an steps ladder...

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