Chapter 2: An Introduction to Functional JavaScript
by M. David Green
You’ve heard that JavaScript is a functional language, or at least that it’s capable of supporting functional programming. But what is functional programming? And for that matter, if you’re going to start comparing programming paradigms in general, how is a functional approach different from the JavaScript that you’ve always written?
Well, the good news is that JavaScript isn’t picky when it comes to paradigms. You can mix your imperative, object-oriented, prototypal, and functional code as you see fit, and still get the job done. But the bad news is what that means for your code. JavaScript can support a wide range of programming styles simultaneously within the same codebase, ...
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