Michael Fogus

Functional JavaScript

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How can you overcome JavaScript language oddities and unsafe features? With this book, you’ll learn how to create code that’s beautiful, safe, and simple to understand and test by using JavaScript’s functional programming support. Author Michael Fogus shows you how to apply functional-style concepts with Underscore.js, a JavaScript library that facilitates functional programming techniques. Sample code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/funjs/book-source. Fogus helps you think in a functional way to help you minimize complexity in the programs you build. If you’re a JavaScript programmer hoping to learn functional programming techniques, or a functional programmer looking to learn JavaScript, this book is the ideal introduction. * Use applicative programming techniques with first-class functions * Understand how and why you might leverage variable scoping and closures * Delve into higher-order functions—and learn how they take other functions as arguments for maximum advantage * Explore ways to compose new functions from existing functions * Get around JavaScript’s limitations for using recursive functions * Reduce, hide, or eliminate the footprint of state change in your programs * Practice flow-based programming with chains and functional pipelines * Discover how to code without using classes

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media / O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 207mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9781449360726
• ISBN-10: 1449360726
• Artikelnr.: 37599482

Autorenporträt

Michael Fogus is software developer with experience in distributedsimulation, machine vision, and expert systems construction. He's actively involved in the Clojure and Scala communities.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jeremy Ashkenas
Foreword by Steve Vinoski
Preface
What Is Underscore?
Whom Functional JavaScript Is Written For
A Roadmap for Functional JavaScript
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introducing Functional JavaScript
1.1 The Case for JavaScript
1.2 Getting Started with Functional Programming
1.3 The Case for Underscore
1.4 Summary
Chapter 2: First-Class Functions and Applicative Programming
2.1 Functions as First-Class Things
2.2 Applicative Programming
2.3 Data Thinking
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3: Variable Scope and Closures
3.1 Global Scope
3.2 Lexical Scope
3.3 Dynamic Scope
3.4 Function Scope
3.5 Closures
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4: Higher-Order Functions
4.1 Functions That Take Other Functions
4.2 Functions That Return Other Functions
4.3 Putting It All Together: Object Validators
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5: Function-Building Functions
5.1 The Essence of Functional Composition
5.2 Currying
5.3 Partial Application
5.4 Stitching Functions End-to-End with Compose
5.5 Summary
Chapter 6: Recursion
6.1 Self-Absorbed Functions (Functions That Call Themselves)
6.2 Codependent Functions (Functions Calling Other Functions That Call Back)
6.3 Too Much Recursion!
6.4 Recursion Is a Low-Level Operation
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7: Purity, Immutability, and Policies for Change
7.1 Purity
7.2 Immutability
7.3 Policies for Controlling Change
7.4 Summary
Chapter 8: Flow-Based Programming
8.1 Chaining
8.2 Pipelining
8.3 Data Flow versus Control Flow
8.4 Summary
Chapter 9: Programming Without Class
9.1 Data Orientation
9.2 Mixins
9.3 }).call("Finis")
Functional JavaScript in the Wild
Functional Libraries for JavaScript
Functional Programming Languages Targeting JavaScript
Annotated Bibliography
Papers/Books/Blog Posts/Talks
Presentations
Blog Posts
Journal Articles
Colophon