Mastering JavaScript Functional Programming

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Explore the functional programming paradigm and techniques for developing better algorithms, writing concise code, and performing seamless testing. This second edition covers features like async functions, transducers, and functional reactive programming, enhancing your skills to build web and server apps using JavaScript. Functional programming helps you write concise and testable code, leading to improved performance and maintainability. This comprehensive guide will assist you in harnessing functional programming capabilities with JavaScript, enabling you to write highly maintainable web and server apps. The updated edition introduces concepts such as transducers, lenses, and prisms, allowing you to write efficient programs. You'll learn to write and test pure functions while minimizing side effects, simplifying code, and applying recursion for loopless coding. The book also covers achieving immutability, implementing design patterns, and working with data types. You'll discover techniques for declarative coding, closures, and immutable data, and learn to tackle complex programming problems using recursion. By the end, you'll have developed your JavaScript skills and gained essential functional programming techniques for effective programming. This book is ideal for JavaScript developers looking to enhance their skills and build efficient web applications.