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Published inSep 2021
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PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781800563421
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 Theofanis Despoudis
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Theo Despoudis lives in Ireland, where he works as a Software Engineer for WP Engine and as a part-time tech practitioner for Fixate. He is the co-author of The React Workshop and Advanced Go Programming in 7 Days, Dzone Core Member, and maintains some open source projects on GitHub. Theo is available for conference talks, independent consulting, and corporate training services opportunities.
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Within this chapter, we explored the fundamental concepts of functional programming and explored some practical examples. Those concepts constitute the backbone of functional programming in general.

We started by understanding the concepts of purity, function composition, and immutability. We noted practical examples of recursion and discovered the benefits of referential transparency. We resumed our exploration with practical functional programming constructs, starting with lenses, which form an abstraction over getters and setters, after which, we learned how transducers can be used to process infinite streams of data in a chain without loss of performance. Finally, we looked at monads and their crucial helpfulness in constructing composable structures at scale.

Utilizing these concepts will support you in structuring your code in a pleasant, abstract way with scalability in mind. In the subsequent chapter, you will learn how reactive programming can help us deliver...

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Theofanis Despoudis

Theo Despoudis lives in Ireland, where he works as a Software Engineer for WP Engine and as a part-time tech practitioner for Fixate. He is the co-author of The React Workshop and Advanced Go Programming in 7 Days, Dzone Core Member, and maintains some open source projects on GitHub. Theo is available for conference talks, independent consulting, and corporate training services opportunities.
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