Chapter 8. Managing asynchronous events and data
This chapter covers
- Identifying the challenges of writing asynchronous code
- Avoiding the use of nested callbacks through functional techniques
- Streamlining asynchronous code using promises
- Generating data lazily with function generators
- Introducing reactive programming
- Applying reactive programming to tackle event-driven code
Functional programmers argue that there are great material benefits—that a functional programmer is an order of magnitude more productive than his conventional counterpart, because functional programs are an order of magnitude shorter.
John Hughes, “Why Functional Programming Matters”[1]
From Research Topics in Functional Programming,” ed. D. Turner (Addison-Wesley, ...
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