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How can you overcome JavaScript language oddities and unsafe features? With this book, you’ll learn how to create code that’s beautiful, safe, and simple to understand and test by using JavaScript’s functional programming support. Author Michael Fogus shows you how to apply functional-style concepts with Underscore.js, a JavaScript library that facilitates functional programming techniques. Sample code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/funjs/book-source.
Fogus helps you think in a functional way to help you minimize complexity in the programs you build. If you’re a JavaScript programmer hoping to learn functional programming techniques, or a functional programmer looking to learn JavaScript, this book is the ideal introduction.
- Use applicative programming techniques with first-class functions
- Understand how and why you might leverage variable scoping and closures
- Delve into higher-order functions—and learn how they take other functions as arguments for maximum advantage
- Explore ways to compose new functions from existing functions
- Get around JavaScript’s limitations for using recursive functions
- Reduce, hide, or eliminate the footprint of state change in your programs
- Practice flow-based programming with chains and functional pipelines
- Discover how to code without using classes
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- Print Length: 262 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1449360726
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- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (June 3, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D624AQO
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Disclaimer - I got this book through the O'Reilly blogger review program, however, I had planned on purchasing this book since I first heard of it, the fact I got it through the program was simply a bonus.
In his new book, Fogus attempts the twofold task of introducing his audience to functional programming in general, and demonstrating how one can achieve a functional style using Javascript and the underscore.js library in particular.
Reading this book was my first sustained investigation into functional programming proper. I had heard it mentioned in various contexts through the years, but as far as real reading into the topic, I doubt that I had done more than simply skimmed the functional programming wikipedia page.
I had, naively, expected to be faced with something entirely foreign when I initially opened the book. What I found, though, is probably best compared to the first time you listen to jazz music after years of listening to rock. All the parts are the same, the musicians use the same instruments, making the same sounds, but use them in ways that are both familiar but, in some sense, radically different at the same time.
In terms of example code provided, it will be comprehensible to anyone familiar with javascript, one might simply be struck by the _way_ things are done. They may seem unnatural at first, but once one starts to get a feeling for the functional style it becomes clear how functional programming makes it easier to reason clearly about your code, something that (it is obvious to me now) is much more difficult in the good old fashioned OOP or imperative programming paradigms.