Functional Programming Resources In JavaScript

• Blog Posts
• Learning Resources
• Talks
• Libraries
• Follow

Blog Posts

Blog posts covering functional programming topics

• Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming

• Higher-order functions Eloquent JavaScript 2nd edition.

• Functional Programming Eloquent JavaScript 1st edition.

• Functional JavaScript, some concepts

• An Introduction to Functional Programming in JavaScript

• From Map/Reduce to JavaScript Functional Programming

• Functional Programming in JavaScript using LiveScript and prelude.ls

• Functional programming with Javascript

• Tacit Ramda

• The Two Pillars of JavaScript — Pt 2: Functional Programming

• Better world by better software FP posts

• Why The Hipsters Compose Everything

• Currying & Partial Application

• From Callback to Future -> Functor -> Monad

• Lenses with Immutable.js

Learning Resources

Posts, articles, videos focused on teaching functional programming

• Property based testing in JavaScript Introduction into property based testing by loop/recur

• Functional Programming in Javascript

• Functional Javascript Workshop A functional javascript workshop. No libraries required (i.e. no underscore), just ES5.

• [Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming] (https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide)

• The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

Talks

Videos and Slides

• Brian Lonsdorf - Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!

• Brian Lonsdorf - Functional programming patterns for the non-mathematician

• Trevor Landau - Functional JS

• Pure JavaScript

• Elise Huard: Why functional is the new black

• Christian Johansen - Pure, functional JavaScript

• Scott Sauyet - Functional Programming

• JavaScript Air Episode 003: Functional and Immutable Design Patterns in JavaScript

Libraries

Libraries that support functional programming

• lodash - A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.

• ramda A practical functional library for Javascript programmers.

• lazy.js Like Underscore, but lazier.

• underscore Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript.

• bacon.js FRP (functional reactive programming) library for Javascript.

• fn.js A JavaScript library built to encourage a functional programming style & strategy.

• fantasy-land Specification for interoperability of common algebraic structures in JavaScript.

• mori A simple bridge to ClojureScript's persistent data structures and supporting APIs for vanilla JavaScript.

• immutable.js Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity. The chai-immutable plugin provides custom Chai assertions when testing against immutable objects.

Follow

Blogs to follow

• loop/recur Brian Lonsdorf and his team