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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

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2.1. No extra variables: Our functional implementation required using an extra variable, done, to mark whether the function had already been called. Not that it matters... but could you make do without using any extra variables? Note that we aren't telling you not to use any variables; it's just a matter of not adding any new ones, such as done, and only as an exercise!

2.2. Alternating functions: In the spirit of our onceAndAfter() function, could you write an alternator() higher-order function that gets two functions as arguments, and on each call, alternatively calls one and another? The expected behavior should be as in the following example:

     let sayA = () => console.log("A");
let sayB = () => console.log("B");

let alt = alternator(sayA, sayB);
alt(); // A
alt(); // B
alt(); // A
alt(); // B
alt...
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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming
Published in: Nov 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781787287440
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