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Anjana Sofia Vakil
April 24, 2016
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Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript
Given at JSUnconf 2016 (
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Anjana Sofia Vakil
April 24, 2016
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Transcript
Learning Functional Programming with JS @AnjanaVakil
The Recurse Center https://www.recurse.com/
What is functional programming?
What is functional programming? a programming paradigm
What is functional programming? a coding style
What is functional programming? a mindset
What is functional programming? a sexy, buzz-wordy trend
Why functional JavaScript?
Why functional JavaScript? object-oriented JS gets tricky (prototypes? this?!?)
Why functional JavaScript? safer, easier to debug/maintain
Why functional JavaScript? established community
OK, let’s do it!
OK, let’s do it! ...how?
Do everything with functions input -> output
Not functional: var name = “Anjana”; var greeting = “Hi,
I’m ”; console.log(greeting + name); => “Hi, I’m Anjana”
Functional: function greet(name) { return “Hi, I’m ” + name;
} greet(“Anjana”); => “Hi, I’m Anjana”
Avoid side effects use “pure” functions
Not pure: var name = “Anjana”; function greet() { console.log(“Hi,
I’m ” + name); }
Pure: function greet(name) { return “Hi, I’m ” + name;
}
Use higher-order functions functions can be inputs/outputs
function makeAdjectifier(adjective) { return function (string) { return adjective +
“ ” + string; }; } var coolifier = makeAdjectifier(“cool”); coolifier(“conference”); => “cool conference”
Don’t iterate use map, reduce, filter
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/forum/topics/what-is-map-reduce
Avoid mutability use immutable data
Mutation (bad!): var rooms = [“H1”, “H2”, “H3”]; rooms[2] =
“H4”; rooms; => ["H1", "H2", "H4"]
No mutation (good!): var rooms = [“H1”, “H2”, “H3”]; Var
newRooms = rooms.map(function (rm) { if (rm == “H3”) { return “H4”; } else { return rm; } }); newRooms; => ["H1", "H2", "H4"] rooms; => ["H1", "H2", "H3"]
Persistent data structures for efficient immutability Mori, Immutable.js
Ready to try it out?
FP libraries for JS • Mori (http://swannodette.github.io/mori/) • Immutable.js (https://facebook.github.
io/immutable-js/) • Underscore (http://underscorejs.org/) • Lodash (https://lodash.com/) • Ramda (http://ramdajs.com/) • ...and more!
Want to learn more?
“An introduction to functional programming” by Mary Rose Cook https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/one/an-introduction-to-functional-programming
Thanks for listening! I’m @AnjanaVakil Huge thanks to: JSUnconf organizers
Diversity sponsors The Recurse Center & alums