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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have considered a new way of producing functions, by fixing the arguments to an existing function in several different ways: currying, a theoretical way; partial application, with more flexibility; and partial currying, which combines good aspects from both previous methods. Using these transformations, you can simplify your coding, because you can generate more specialized versions of general functions, without any hassle.

In Chapter 8, Connecting Functions - Pipelining and Composition, we will turn back to some concepts we saw in the chapter on pure functions, and we will be considering ways of ensuring that functions cannot become impure by accident, by seeking for ways to make their arguments immutable, making them impossible to mutate.

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