Functional Javascript

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.

In this course, you will have an in-depth overview and the tools in your utility belt to write maintainable code in JavaScript.

This course will introduce you to the basics of functional programming in JavaScript including what pure functions are, currying, composition, and how to control the application flow in a functional way.

You will get an in-depth overview of how to handle asynchronous code with promises, generator functions, and the ES2017 async-await construct. These tools will help you set up communication with a server via an API later, when implementing a web application.

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.

In this course, you will be comfortable using functional programming to handle asynchronous code (events and fetching APIs), error handling and writing clean functional code that can handle unknown values without becoming difficult to read.