Beginning Functional JavaScript: Uncover the Concepts of Functional Programming with EcmaScript 8

© Anto Aravinth, Srikanth Machiraju 2018

A. Aravinth, S. MachirajuBeginning Functional JavaScripthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4087-8_3

3. Higher Order Functions

Anto Aravinth¹  and Srikanth Machiraju²

(1)

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

(2)

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

 

In the previous chapter we saw how to create simple functions in ES8. We also set up our environment to play around with functional programs using a node ecosystem. In fact, we created our first functional program application programming interface (API) called forEach in the previous chapter. There is something special about the forEach function that we developed in Chapter 2. We passed a function itself as an argument to our forEach function. There is no trick involved there; it’s ...