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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

Questions

7.1 Hard by hand: With our “curried by hand” sum() function, we could write sum()(3)(5) and get 8. But what happens if we write sum(3)()(5) instead?

7.2 Sum as you will: The following exercise will help you understand some of the concepts we dealt with in this chapter, even if you solve it without using any of the functions we looked at. Write a sumMany() function that lets you sum an indeterminate quantity of numbers in the following fashion. Note that when the function is called with no arguments, the sum is returned:

let result = sumMany(9)(2)(3)(1)(4)(3)();
// 22

7.3 Curry with eval? You could also produce a curried version of a function by using eval() – yes, the unsafe, dangerous eval()! If you are willing to avoid the potential security headaches that eval() can bring, you could use it to transform a function such as the following:

const make3 = (a: string, b: number, c: string): string =>
  `${a}:${b}:${c}`;

You could...

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