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 ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming ... alone can be used as data and data structures.

principles of functional programming languages such as use of immutable data, flow control using functional calls and recursions; practical aspects of algorithmic concepts such as searching. The ...

Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming ... a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse of data types.

Functional programming ... a result or (as with first-order functions) a standard data type. In addition, a pure function supports the following principles: The following code shows a scenario in ...