Functional Programming in JavaScript

by Dan Mantyla

Functional Programming in JavaScript

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction

150 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 2015

Reviews

[John Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book on functional programming. Discusses category theory and has practical tips towards the end on optimizing functions. Check it out!

[Vlad Bezden · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a great book. Very concise and up to the point. Dan is using real JavaScript code to show how everything works, so you can see how everything works under the hood, instead of rely on existing libraries. He also provides real examples. What I also like that he is not saying that FP is the only way of doing programming, but he says that both OOP and FP has their own purpose and it's very hard to write whole application in FP, he provides real example how to use them both.
Another good thing about this book, that he is not going deep to theory, but he gives you enough to understand concept and for everything he provides examples. This book is only 133 pages, but I think Dan was able to cover all area of FP.
If you are absolutely new to FP or JavaScript, then this book might not be for you.

[Tadd Giles · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poorly written, low quality

The prose is very verbose, unfocused, and filled with spelling errors. I purchased the Ebook which is very poorly formatted with bad line breaks in the code examples and lots of random blank pages throughout. Perhaps with some tight editing it could be significantly improved, but in its current state the Ebook is practically unreadable. I'm really disappointed because I need to learn about this topic.