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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

Questions

3.1 Uninitialized object? React+Redux programmers usually code action creators to simplify the creation of actions that will later be processed by a reducer. Actions are objects, which must include a type attribute that is used to determine what kind of action you are dispatching.  The following code supposedly does that, but can you explain the unexpected results?

     const simpleAction = t => {
type: t;
};

console.log(simpleAction("INITIALIZE"));
// undefined

3.2. Are arrows allowed? Would everything be the same if you defined listArguments() and listArguments2() using arrow functions, instead of the classic way we used, with the function keyword?

3.3. One liner. Some line-of-codes-thrifty programmer suggested rewriting doAction2() as a one-liner... though formatting doesn't let it...

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