JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements. Traditional methods like slice, splice, and push/pop do this by operating on the array ...

There are libraries that make it easier to program in a functional style in JavaScript, but the language already has enough facilities for a reasonable approach to functional programming. The most ...

Ramda is a library of functions designed to make functional programming in JavaScript easy and powerful without making it any less like JavaScript. Ramda - the name is a joke based on lamb-da as in ...

JavaScript has emerged as a language in which every programmer needs to be competent, if not masterful. It is the lingua franca of the Web client, and while alternatives such as Microsoft’s TypeScript ...

JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at a cost to readability or consistency across a code base, it also ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to different ...