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Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming

You're reading from   Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming Write clean, robust, and maintainable web and server code using functional JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213069
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Federico Kereki Federico Kereki
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Technical Requirements
2. Becoming Functional - Several Questions FREE CHAPTER 3. Thinking Functionally - A First Example 4. Starting Out with Functions - A Core Concept 5. Behaving Properly - Pure Functions 6. Programming Declaratively - A Better Style 7. Producing Functions - Higher-Order Functions 8. Transforming Functions - Currying and Partial Application 9. Connecting Functions - Pipelining and Composition 10. Designing Functions - Recursion 11. Ensuring Purity - Immutability 12. Implementing Design Patterns - The Functional Way 13. Building Better Containers - Functional Data Types 14. Bibliography
15. Answers to Questions 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

7.1. Sum as you will: The following exercise will help you understand some of the concepts we dealt with in this chapter, even if you solve it without using any of the functions we looked at. Write a sumMany() function that lets you sum an indeterminate quantity of numbers, in the following fashion. Note that when the function is called with no arguments, the sum is returned:

let result = sumMany((9)(2)(3)(1)(4)(3)());
// 22

7.2. Working stylishly: Write an applyStyle() function that will let you apply basic styling to strings, in the following way. Use either currying or partial application:

const makeBold = applyStyle("b");
document.getElementById("myCity").innerHTML =
makeBold("Montevideo");
// <b>Montevideo</b>, to produce Montevideo

const makeUnderline = applyStyle("u");
document.getElementById("myCountry&quot...
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