Maintainable JavaScript with Functional Patterns

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Argues that swapping mutation-heavy for‑loops for map filter reduce and the spread operator yields smaller, testable functions, shows immutability with const and copying via spread, demonstrates turning nested loops into a compose via reduce pipeline, and uses reduce to build objects instead of mutating accumulators. Recommends adopting TypeScript for safer refactors and exploring FPTS for functional helpers, and notes incremental refactoring is practical — no full rewrite required.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:37Welcome
3. 0:51Who am I
4. 2:20What we want in programming
5. 4:32Why is JavaScript so hard to maintain
6. 6:50Functional JavaScript
7. 7:14Functional Programming Concepts
8. 8:51Purity
9. 10:21Line Function
10. 12:08Accumulation Function
11. 13:20Cognitive Load
12. 15:35Immutability
13. 17:02Const
14. 18:21Copying
15. 20:41Functions
16. 23:09Function Signatures
17. 27:06Function Composition
18. 33:20Conditional Push
19. 37:01Filter
20. 38:19initialize iterate accumulate
21. 41:57reduce
22. 48:33function as values
23. 51:13summary

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