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Functional Programming using Underscore.js othree @ OSDC 2013
me • @othree • https://blog.othree.net
me • PhD Candidate • Front End Engineer • On
the way learning good from functional programming languages
Function of Functional Language • Pure function • First class
citizen • Higher order function • ...
Pure Function • Side effect free • Same input, same
output • ex: trigonometric functions
First Class Citizen • Function like variable • ex: function
expression var f = function () { /*...*/ };
Higher Order Function • Function takes or return functions •
ex: event listener
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78428166@N00/6036104277/
Take a Look Examples from ‘Pure, functional JavaScript’ http://cjohansen.no/talks/2012/sdc-functional/
[ { name: 'Gates', gender: 'M', org: 'M$' }, {
name: 'Peter' gender: 'M', org: 'Hㄒㄈ' } ]
"Mentioned by Gates, Peter, Jobs"
var str = "Mentioned by "; for (var i =
0, l = tweeps.length; i < l; ++i) { str += tweeps[i].name; if (i < tweeps.length - 1) { str += ", "; } }
[ { name: 'Gates', gender: 'M', org: 'M$' }, {
name: 'Peter' gender: 'M', org: 'Hㄒㄈ' } ]
[ 'Gates', 'Peter' ]
var names = []; for (var i = 0, l
= tweeps.length; i < l; ++i) { names.push(tweeps[i].name); }
var str = "Mentioned by " + names.join(", ");
var names = tweeps.map(function (tweep) { return tweep.name; });
var names = tweeps.map(function (t) { return t.name; });
var str = "Mentioned by " + tweeps.map(function (t) {
return t.name; }).join(", ");
function prop(name) { return function (object) { return object[name]; };
}
var str = "Mentioned by " + tweeps.map(prop("name")).join(", ");
Case 2
[ { getSummary: function () { return { text: 'Summaries',
html: '<p>Summaries</p>' }; } }, { getSummary: function () { return {text: 'Summaried'}; } }, ... ]
<div> <p>Summaries</p> <p>Summaried</p> <p>Summary</p> </div>
buildSummary: function () { var div = document.createElement("div"), p; for
(var i = 0, l = this.components.length; i < l; ++i) { p = document.createElement("p"); p.innerHTML = this.components[i].getSummary().text; div.appendChild(p); } return div; }
DOM functions
var ul = cull.dom.el("ul"); ul.nodeType === 1 // true https://github.com/culljs/dome/
var ul = cull.dom.el("ul", { className: "bands" }); // var
li = cull.dom.el("li", "Execration"); var ul = cull.dom.el("ul", { className: "bands" }, li);
var ul = cull.partial(cull.dom.el, "ul"); var li = cull.partial(cull.dom.el, "li");
["a", "br", "code", "div", ...].forEach(function (tagName) { cull.dom.el[tagName] = cull.partial(cull.dom.el,
tagName); }); // ["a", "br", "code", "div", ...].forEach(function (tagName) { root[tagName] = cull.partial(cull.dom.el, tagName); });
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackhynes/519904699/
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components.map(function (component) { return p(component.getSummary().text);
})); }
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components.map(function (component) { return p(component.getSummary().text);
})); } 1
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components.map(function (component) { return p(component.getSummary().text);
})); } 1 2
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components.map(function (component) { return p(component.getSummary().text);
})); } 1 2 3
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components. map(function (component) { return
component.getSummary(); }).map(function (summary) { return summary.text; }).map(function (text) { return p(text); })); }
function func(name) { return function (object) { return object[name](); };
}
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components. map(func("getSummary")). map(function (summary) {
return summary.text; }).map(function (text) { return p(text); })); }
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components. map(func("getSummary")). map(prop("text")). map(function (text)
{ return p(text); })); }
buildSummary: function () { return div(this.components. map(func("getSummary")). map(prop("text")). map(p)); }
var summarize = compose([p, prop("text"), func("getSummary")]);
var callGetSummary = func("getSummary"); var getText = prop("text"); var summarize
= compose([p, getText, callGetSummary]); // summarize(obj); // => callGetSummary(obj) // => getText(callGetSummary(obj)) // => p(getText(callGetSummary(obj)))
buildSummary: function () { var summarize = compose([p, prop("text"), func("getSummary")]);
return div(this.components.map(summarize)); }
var summarize = compose([p, prop("text"), func("getSummary")]); // ... buildSummary: function
() { return div(this.components.map(summarize)); }
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guerson/5630633727/
Functional Programming in JavaScript
Native • forEach • map/reduce • filter
Functional JavaScript • by Oliver Steele at 2007 • First
functional JavaScript Library I know
Underscore.js • by Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud • “Underscore is
a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support”
Lo-Dash • Will talk later
cull.js • by Christian Johansen and Magnar Sveen • “Cull
is a toolbelt for writing functional javascript.” • Used in the examples above https://github.com/culljs/culljs
LiveScript & prelude.ls • by George Zahariev • A new
compile to JavaScript language fork from Coco • Stay in this room until tomorrow, Mindos have a talk about LiveScript
GHCJS • by Hamish Mackenzie, Victor Nazarov, Luite Stegeman •
Haskell to JavaScript compiler
Underscore.js • compose • map/reduce • filter • pluck
var str = "Mentioned by " + tweeps.map(prop("name")).join(", ");
var str = "Mentioned by " + _.reduce( _.map(tweeps, function
(t) { return t.name; }), function (memo, name, i) { return (i == 0) ? name : memo + ', ' + name; }, '' );
var str = "Mentioned by " + _(tweeps) .chain() .map(function
(t) { return t.name; }) .reduce(function (memo, name, i) { return (i == 0) ? name : memo + ', ' + name; }, '') .value();
var str = "Mentioned by " + _(tweeps) .map(function (t)
{ return t.name; }) .join(', ');
var str = "Mentioned by " + _(tweeps).pluck('name').join(', ');
Still Not Enough • curry, partial • prop, func from
above example
Lo-Dash
Functional Programming using Underscore.js othree @ OSDC 2013.1
Functional Programming using Underscore.js Lo-Dash othree @ OSDC 2013.1
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@
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What is Lo-Dash • Underscore.js fork by John-David Dalton, Kit
Cambridge, and Mathias Bynens
Difference • Better performance • Robust result • Larger file
size • AMD supports • Auto chain • More power: cloneDeep, partial, result...
_.partial var greet = function(greeting, name) { return greeting +
' ' + name; }; var hi = _.partial(greet, 'hi'); hi('moe'); // ! 'hi moe' http://lodash.com/docs#partial
_.result var object = { 'cheese': 'crumpets', 'stuff': function ()
{ return 'nonsense'; } }; _.result(object, 'cheese'); // ! 'crumpets' _.result(object, 'stuff'); // ! 'nonsense' http://lodash.com/docs#result
With Lo-Dash
var summarize = compose([p, prop("text"), func("getSummary")]); // ... buildSummary: function
() { return div(map(summarize), this.components); }
var summarize = _.compose( p, _.partialRight(_.result, 'name'), _.partialRight(_.result, 'getSummary') );
// ... buildSummary: function () { return div(_.map(this.components, summarize)); }
Performance?
Bad..
http://jsperf.com/for-vs-foreach/71
http://jsperf.com/for-vs-foreach/71
• Take benefits from functional programming • Not change everything
to functional • Library helps, ex: lo-dash
References Further Readings
http://interglacial.com/hoj/hoj.html
http://cjohansen.no/talks/2012/sdc-functional/
http://kitcambridge.be/blog/say-hello-to-lo-dash/
http://www.slideshare.net/ihower/fp-osdc2012v2
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272821.do
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do N ot Yet Released
Questions? http://www.flickr.com/photos/roman/5610736/