Functional JavaScript

Foreword by Jeremy Ashkenas;Foreword by Steve Vinoski;Preface; What Is Underscore?; Whom Functional JavaScript Is Written For; A Roadmap for Functional JavaScript; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Introducing Functional JavaScript; 1.1 The Case for JavaScript; 1.2 Getting Started with Functional Programming; 1.3 The Case for Underscore; 1.4 Summary;Chapter 2: First-Class Functions and Applicative Programming; 2.1 Functions as First-Class Things; 2.2 Applicative Programming; 2.3 Data Thinking; 2.4 Summary;Chapter 3: Variable Scope and Closures; 3.1 Global Scope; 3.2 Lexical Scope; 3.3 Dynamic Scope; 3.4 Function Scope; 3.5 Closures; 3.6 Summary;Chapter 4: Higher-Order Functions; 4.1 Functions That Take Other Functions; 4.2 Functions That Return Other Functions; 4.3 Putting It All Together: Object Validators; 4.4 Summary;Chapter 5: Function-Building Functions; 5.1 The Essence of Functional Composition; 5.2 Currying; 5.3 Partial Application; 5.4 Stitching Functions End-to-End with Compose; 5.5 Summary;Chapter 6: Recursion; 6.1 Self-Absorbed Functions (Functions That Call Themselves); 6.2 Codependent Functions (Functions Calling Other Functions That Call Back); 6.3 Too Much Recursion!; 6.4 Recursion Is a Low-Level Operation; 6.5 Summary;Chapter 7: Purity, Immutability, and Policies for Change; 7.1 Purity; 7.2 Immutability; 7.3 Policies for Controlling Change; 7.4 Summary;Chapter 8: Flow-Based Programming; 8.1 Chaining; 8.2 Pipelining; 8.3 Data Flow versus Control Flow; 8.4 Summary;Chapter 9: Programming Without Class; 9.1 Data Orientation; 9.2 Mixins; 9.3 }).call("Finis");;Functional JavaScript in the Wild; Functional Libraries for JavaScript; Functional Programming Languages Targeting JavaScript;Annotated Bibliography; Papers/Books/Blog Posts/Talks; Presentations; Blog Posts; Journal Articles;Colophon;

Michael Fogus is software developer with experience in distributedsimulation, machine vision, and expert systems construction. He's actively involved in the Clojure and Scala communities.