Functional Programming in JavaScript video edition

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In Video Editions the narrator reads the book while the content, figures, code listings, diagrams, and text appear on the screen. Like an audiobook that you can also watch as a video.

"This book transformed the way that I think about and write JavaScript."
Andrew Meredith, Intrinsitech Corporation

Functional Programming in JavaScript teaches you techniques to improve your web applications: their extensibility, modularity, reusability, and testability, as well as their performance. This easy-to-read book/course uses concrete examples and clear explanations to show you how to use functional programming in real life. If you're new to functional programming, you'll appreciate this guide's many insightful comparisons to imperative or object-oriented programming that help you understand functional design. By the end, you'll think about application design in a fresh new way, and you may even grow to appreciate monads!

In complex web applications, the low-level details of your JavaScript code can obscure the workings of the system as a whole. As a coding style, functional programming (FP) promotes loosely coupled relationships among the components of your application, making the big picture easier to design, communicate, and maintain.
Inside:

  • High-value FP techniques for real-world uses
  • Using FP where it makes the most sense
  • Separating the logic of your system from implementation details
  • FP-style error handling, testing, and debugging
  • All code samples use JavaScript ES6 (ES 2015)
Created for developers with a solid grasp of JavaScript fundamentals and web application design.

Luis Atencio (@luijar) is a staff software engineer for Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science and now works full-time developing and architecting applications using JavaScript, Java, and PHP platforms. Luis is very involved in the community and has presented frequently at local meetups and conferences. He blogs about software engineering at luisatencio.net, writes articles for magazines and DZone, and is also the coauthor of RxJS in Action (Manning, 2017).

Easy to navigate, with real-life examples.
Amy Teng, Dell

Now, this is the way to write JavaScript!
William E. Wheeler, West Corporation

After reading this book, I revisited how I approached coding and was able to retrain my mind using better methods and techniques.
Tanner Slayton Sr., Microsoft Corporation

NARRATED BY CHRIS DUNN

Table of contents

  1. PART 1. Think functionally
    1. Chapter 1. Becoming functional
    2. Chapter 1. What is functional programming?
    3. Chapter 1. Pure functions and the problem with side effects
    4. Chapter 1. Referential transparency and substitutability
    5. Chapter 1. Benefits of functional programming
    6. Chapter 1. Reacting to the complexity of asynchronous applications
    7. Chapter 2. Higher-order JavaScript
    8. Chapter 2. Functional vs. object-oriented programming
    9. Chapter 2. Managing the state of JavaScript objects
    10. Chapter 2. Deep-freezing moving parts
    11. Chapter 2. Functions
    12. Chapter 2. Types of function invocation
    13. Chapter 2. Closures and scopes
    14. Chapter 2. JavaScript’s function scope
    15. Chapter 2. Practical applications of closures
  2. PART 2. Get functional
    1. Chapter 3. Few data structures, many operations
    2. Chapter 3. Understanding lambda expressions
    3. Chapter 3. Gathering results with _.reduce
    4. Chapter 3. Reasoning about your code
    5. Chapter 3. SQL-like data: functions as data
    6. Chapter 3. Learning to think recursively
    7. Chapter 3. Recursively defined data structures
    8. Chapter 4. Toward modular, reusable code
    9. Chapter 4. Requirements for compatible functions
    10. Chapter 4. Curried function evaluation
    11. Chapter 4. Partial application and parameter binding
    12. Chapter 4. Composing function pipelines
    13. Chapter 4. Composition with functional libraries
    14. Chapter 4. Managing control flow with functional combinators
    15. Chapter 4. Fork (join) combinator
    16. Chapter 5. Design patterns against complexity
    17. Chapter 5. Building a better solution: functors
    18. Chapter 5. Functors explained
    19. Chapter 5. Functional error handling using monads
    20. Chapter 5. Error handling with Maybe and Either monads
    21. Chapter 5. Interacting with external resources using the IO monad
    22. Chapter 5. Monadic chains and compositions
  3. PART 3. Enhancing your functional skills
    1. Chapter 6. Bulletproofing your code
    2. Chapter 6. Challenges of testing imperative programs
    3. Chapter 6. Testing functional code
    4. Chapter 6. Separating the pure from the impure with monadic isolation
    5. Chapter 6. Capturing specifications with property-based testing
    6. Chapter 6. Measuring effectiveness through code coverage
    7. Chapter 6. Measuring the complexity of functional code
    8. Chapter 7. Functional optimizations
    9. Chapter 7. Currying and the function context stack
    10. Chapter 7. Deferring execution using lazy evaluation
    11. Chapter 7. Implementing a call-when-needed strategy
    12. Chapter 7. Taking advantage of currying and memoization
    13. Chapter 7. Recursion and tail-call optimization (TCO)
    14. Chapter 8. Managing asynchronous events and data
    15. Chapter 8. Falling into a callback pyramid
    16. Chapter 8. First-class asynchronous behavior with promises
    17. Chapter 8. Future method chains
    18. Chapter 8. Lazy data generation
    19. Chapter 8. Functional and reactive programming with RxJS
    20. Chapter 8. RxJS and promises

Product information

  • Title: Functional Programming in JavaScript video edition
  • Author(s): Luis Atencio
  • Release date: June 2016
  • Publisher(s): Manning Publications
  • ISBN: None