Functional-Light JavaScript

Preface A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. Did I just lose you? Don't worry, I'd be lost, too!

Chapter 1: Why Functional Programming? Functional programmer: (noun) One who names variables "x", names functions "f",

Chapter 2: Foundations of Functional Functions Functional Programming is not just programming with the function keyword.

Chapter 3: Managing Function Inputs In "Function Inputs" in Chapter 2, we talked about the basics of function parameters

Chapter 4: Composing Functions By now, I hope you're feeling much more comfortable with what it means to use functions f

Chapter 5: Reducing Side Effects In Chapter 2, we discussed how a function can have outputs besides its return value. By

Chapter 6: Value Immutability In Chapter 5, we talked about the importance of reducing side causes/effects: the ways tha

Chapter 7: Closure vs Object A number of years ago, Anton van Straaten crafted what has become a rather famous and oft-c

Chapter 8: List Operations Did you have fun down our little closures/objects rabbit hole in the previous chapter? Welcom

Chapter 9: Recursion On the next page, we're going to jump into the topic of recursion. (rest of the page intentionally

Chapter 10: Functional Async At this point of the book, you now have all the raw concepts in place for the foundation of

Chapter 11: Putting It All Together By now, you have everything you need to understand functional-light JavaScript. Ther

Appendix A: Transducing Transducing is a more advanced technique than we've covered in this book. It extends many of the

Appendix B: The Humble Monad Let me just start off this appendix by admitting: I did not know much about what a monad wa

Appendix C: FP Libraries If you've been reading this book from start to finish, take a minute to stop and look back how