Functional JavaScript
summary
Argues that JavaScript can shift toward functional idioms using concrete techniques: uses map/filter/reduce pipeline to transform a pastries list into cherry juice, demonstrates currying with a pizza example to create preset arguments, and shows the maybe monad to eliminate null checks by wrapping values so chained operations skip on failure. Claims immutability and minimized side effects make large codebases easier to reason about, and points to underscore.js and FunctionalJS as practical libraries.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:52PARADIGMS
- 3:09FP EMPHASIZES
- 6:43SPREADSHEETS
- 9:23FILTERING
- 9:54REDUCE
- 10:54COMPOSITION
- 11:41CURRYING
- 13:15MONADS
- 17:28MAYBE MONAD
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