Practical Functional style Patterns for JavaScript - Cory Brown

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2016 UtahJS Conference
Friday, September 16, 2016

Slides: http://slides.com/corybrown/functiona...

Functional-style Javascript is what all the cool kids are doing these days. Don't be that old timer who wears Birkenstocks with socks -- if you are wearing Birkenstocks with socks, I tell you this as a friend. I care about you and don't want you to look ridiculous in public -- and claims you've been writing JavaScript for the web for 30 years before it became popular. Your fashion choices and inaccurate sense of time gives you away. There's room for everyone at the cool kids table. Together, we will step into the glorious light of Functional-style JavaScript with some simple patterns and concepts that will have you extolling the virtues and power of higher order functions and function composition. At last you'll be able to meaningfully code review those young hipster's code and maybe even give them a tip or two. It's not as new or foreign as you think. We can do this together! * Getting in the functional mindset * The tao of black-boxing * Ascending to higher order functions * The immutable power of immutables * These are not the inefficiencies you're looking for.