Beginning functional JavaScript : functional programming with JavaScript using EcmaScript 6 /: functional programming with JavaScript using EcmaScript 6. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anto Aravinth.
• Authors: Aravinth, Anto
• Contents: At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Functional Programming in Simple Terms; What Is Functional Programming? Why It Matters?; Referential Transparency; Imperative, Declarative, Abstraction; Functional Programming Benefits; Pure Functions; Pure Functions Lead to Testable Code; Reasonable Code; Parallel Code; Cachable; Pipelines and Composable; Pure Function Is a Mathematical Function; What We Are Going to Build; Is JavaScript a Functional Programming Language?; Summary; Chapter 2: Fundamentals of JavaScript Functions; ECMAScript A Bit of History. Creating and Executing FunctionsFirst Function; Strict Mode; Return Statement Is Optional; Multiple Statement Functions; Function Arguments; ES5 Functions Are Valid in ES6; Setting Up Our Project; Initial Setup; Our First Functional Approach to the Loop Problem; Gist on Exports; Gist on Imports; Running the Code Using Babel-Node; Creating Script in Npm; Running the Source Code from Git; Summary; Chapter 3: Higher-Order Functions; Understanding Data; Understanding JavaScript Data Types; Storing a Function; Passing a Function; Returning a Function; Abstraction and Higher-Order Functions. Abstraction DefinitionsAbstraction via Higher-Order Functions; Higher-Order Functions in the Real World; every Function; some Function; sort Function; Summary; Chapter 4: Closures and Higher-Order Functions; Understanding Closures; What Are Closures?; Remembering Where It Is Born; Revisiting sortBy Function; Higher-Order Functions in the Real World (Continued); tap Function; unary Function; once Function; Memoize Function; Summary; Chapter 5: Being Functional on Arrays; Working Functionally on Arrays; map; filter; Chaining Operations; concatAll; Reducing Function; reduce Function. Zipping Arrayszip Function; Summary; Chapter 6: Currying and Partial Application; A Few Terminologies; unary Function; Binary Function; variadic Functions; Currying; Currying Use Cases; A logger Function -- Using Currying; Revisit Curry; Back to logger Function; Currying in Action; Finding number in Array Contents; squaring an Array; Data Flow; Partial Application; Implementing partial Function; Currying vs. Partial Application; Summary; Chapter 7: Composition and Pipelines; Composition in General Terms; Unix Philosophy; Functional Composition; Revisiting map, filter; compose Function. Playing with compose functioncurry and partial to the Rescue; compose many function; Pipelines / Sequence; Implementing pipe; Odds on Composition; Composition is associative; Debugging Using tap Function; Summary; Chapter 8: Fun with Functors; What Is a Functor?; Functor Is a Container; Functor Implements Method Called map; MayBe; Implementing MayBe; Simple Use Cases; Real-World Use Cases; Either Functor; Implementing Either; Reddit Example Either Version; Word of Caution -- Pointed Functor; Summary; Chapter 9: Monads in Depth; Getting Reddit Comments for Our Search Query; The Problem.
• Publisher Details: United States : Apress
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.2/762; Computer science; JavaScript (Computer program language); Functional programming (Computer science); COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- JavaScript; Functional programming (Computer science); JavaScript (Computer program language); Computer Science; Web Development; Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Computers -- Programming -- General; Computers -- Software Development & Engineering -- General; Computer programming / software development; Software Engineering; Computer programming; Software engineering; Computers -- Web -- Web Programming; Web programming; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484226568; 1484226569
• Related ISBNs: 9781484226551; 1484226550
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 22, 2017).
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