LEARNING PATH: Modern Web Apps with Functional JavaScript

JavaScript is a multi–paradigm language, meaning that it supports programming in many different patterns. Functional programming has been around for decades, but it 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 growsss. It is the technique of building software by constructing pure functions, avoiding shared state, mutable data, and side–effects. Functional programming is analytical and the application state flows through pure functions. If you’re interested to learn the concepts required to be a functional programmer and write functional web–apps using modern JavaScript, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

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The primary idea of this Learning Path is to help you build code to run your App in Functional JavaScript.

This Learning Path 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.