JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI ...

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 ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer of ...

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 ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

Understanding asynchronous programming is akin to unlocking a powerful toolset for building efficient and responsive web applications. Asynchronous programming is essential to modern JavaScript ...

The programming language JavaScript emerged 25 years ago and has grown to become one of the most important pieces of the web and browser applications we use today. JavaScript is the go-to language for ...

So you’ve learned some JavaScript and you’re curious to learn about the programming paradigms you can use to architect your software. Tonight will be an intro to Functional programming. We’ll look at ...