JavaScript: Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

Preface

Functional programming is a style that emphasizes and enables smarter code that minimizes complexity and increases modularity. It's a way of writing cleaner code through clever ways of mutating, combining and using functions. And JavaScript provides an excellent medium for this approach. JavaScript, the internet's scripting language, is actually a functional language at heart. By learning how to expose JavaScript's true identity as a functional language, we can implement web apps that are more powerful, easier to maintain and more reliable. JavaScript's odd quirks and pitfalls will suddenly become clear and the language as a whole will make infinitely more sense. Learning how to use functional programming will make you a better programmer ...