README.md

Functional-Light JavaScript

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Why Functional Programming?
  • At a Glance
  • Confidence
  • Communication
  • Readability
  • Perspective
  • How to Find Balance
  • Resources
• Chapter 2: The Nature Of Functions
  • What Is A Function?
  • Function Input
  • Named Arguments
  • Function Output
  • Functions Of Functions
  • Syntax
  • What's This?
• Chapter 3: Managing Function Inputs
  • All For One
  • Adapting Arguments to Parameters
  • Some Now, Some Later
  • One At A Time
  • Order Matters
  • No Points
• Chapter 4: Composing Functions
  • Output To Input
  • General Composition
  • Reordered Composition
  • Abstraction
  • Revisiting Points
• Chapter 5: Reducing Side Effects
  • Effects On The Side, Please
  • Once Is Enough, Thanks
  • Pure Bliss
  • There Or Not
  • Purifying
• Chapter 6: Value Immutability
  • Primitive Immutability
  • Value To Value
  • Reassignment
  • Performance
  • Treatment
• Chapter 7: Closure vs Object
  • The Same Page
  • Look Alike
  • Two Roads Diverged In A Wood...
• Chapter 8: Recursion
  • Definition
  • Declarative Recursion
  • Stack
  • Rearranging Recursion
• Chapter 9: List Operations
  • Non-FP List Processing
  • Map
  • Filter
  • Reduce
  • Advanced List Operations
  • Method vs. Standalone
  • Looking For Lists
  • Fusion
  • Beyond Lists
• Chapter 10: Functional Async
  • Time As State
  • Eager vs Lazy
  • Reactive FP
• Chapter 11: Putting It All Together
  • Setup
  • Stock Events
  • Stock Ticker UI
• Appendix A: Transducing
  • Why, First
  • How, Next
  • What, Finally
• Appendix B: The Humble Monad
  • Type
  • Loose Interface
  • Just a Monad
  • Maybe
  • Humble
• Appendix C: FP Libraries
  • Stuff to Investigate
  • Ramda
  • Lodash/fp
  • Mori
  • Bonus: FPO
  • Bonus #2: fasy