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 is a professional JavaScript developer and the author of three courses on Functional JavaScript. He’s written multiple JavaScript applications for internal use at large companies. Michael is the founder of the Massachusetts Web Devs meetup. He has a great passion for learning, and teaching
You can find him answering questions in the Ramda gitter channel or at [email protected]
I’d like to thank my family for giving me the opportunity to explore things I enjoy learning, and to the team at Packt Publishing, especially Sunny Kandre and Anish Dsouza for making this course possible.
