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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

Questions

5.1. Filtering... but what? Suppose you have an array, called someArray, and you apply the following .filter() to it, which at first sight doesn't even look like valid JavaScript code. What will be in the new array and why?

 let newArray = someArray.filter(Boolean);

5.2. Generating HTML code, with restrictions: Using the filter()...map()...reduce() sequence is quite common (even allowing that sometimes you won't use all three), and we'll come back to this in the Functional design patterns section in Chapter 11, Implementing Design Patterns – The Functional Way. The problem here is how to use those functions (and no others!) to produce an unordered list of elements (<ul>...</ul>) that can later be used onscreen. Your input is an array of objects like the following (does the list of characters date me?) and you must...

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