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Learn to Write Functional Javascript

4 hours on-demand video

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Brief Introduction

Learn the concepts required to be a functional programmer and to write functional web-apps using modern JavaScript

Description

Functional programming has been around for decades, but it only overtook the JavaScript community in recent years. The impact is undeniable and yet with all the material available it still isn’t always easy to grok.

This course delivers the building blocks of the functional paradigm in a way that makes sense to JavaScript developers. Animated visualizations help explain difficult concepts such as higher-order functions, lenses and persistent data, partial application and currying and then write code so you understand concepts before trying to apply the knowledge them.

Many functional programming videos leave students feeling as if they just learned something that can’t quite be useful, but in Foundations of Functional Programming you’ll build stateless UI components and implement your own higher-order functions that integrate them with JSX and virtual-dom using no frameworks, just functional programming and modern JavaScript.

About The Author

Michael Rosata has been a professional Javascript Developer for 4 years now, he started building web pages. He started building web pages, widges and then Web Apps. He has worked on a couple of large webapps using Javascript as well as Apache cordova. He loves the javascript ecosystem and the web community and adopted Functional Programming as his passion. He is the founder of MA Web Dev Meetup group and they are currently building a web app for non profits.

Requirements

Requirements
They assume the viewer understands JavaScript, has written some ES6, can clone a git repo and smiles at least once per day.

Knowledge

Understand pure functions and how to refactor impure functions
Learn why grouping pure functions can simplify an apps mental model
See how impurities break that modal and how to isolate them
Create reusable functions by writing higher-order functions
Write more declarative and expressive code without loops
Master map, filter and reduce, three very powerful functional utilities
Create your own higher-order functions to replace native JS Array methods
Learn about partial application and create your own curry implementation
Learn about immutability, persistent data structures and their pros and cons
Work with nested immutable data with lenses using Ramda
Write pure functions to model the DOM and then drop JSX on top of it
Replace our DOM Rendering function with virtual-dom
Build JSX & Virtual-DOM into functional ES2017 apps without using React

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