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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)
My name is Aldwin. I'm back-end-leaning full-stack (web-) developer with over 13 years of full time professional experience at various software development agencies. Besides that, I have years of hobby-programming and open-source experience, with Fluture[1] being my most well-received.
I've been leading small teams for the last eight years, focusing on developer enabling work such as process management, devops, software architecture, and coaching.
I'm very passionately in particular about functional programming, and I'm hoping to coach teams when it comes to the cross-over between functional programming and software architecture - something a lot of developers who are new to FP struggle with.
Although I have been involved in a huge variety of software types, I'm particularly well-experienced when it comes to real-time, offline-first web-applications and real-time data processing.
[1]: https://github.com/fluture-js/Fluture
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FP for web/mobile apps in 2022?
I think that it is fine to code perfectly functional apps using TypeScript with React Native and React. You will have a huge community to support you with documentation, libraries, and available labor. Yes, the language has a lot of soundness holes and misses a lot of useful features like pattern matching or type classes but, for me, it is a valid trade-off. There are libraries for better FP programming in TypeScript like fp-ts, io-ts, and fluture.
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Introduction to Functional Programming in JavaScript
Fortunately, as it has been shown in this article, it’s definitely possible to use functional programming with plain JavaScript. However, if you really want to dive deeper into this paradigm while using JavaScript, you’ll probably want to use some already existing functional libraries such as Sanctuary, Fluture, Ramda and others.
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A Fallback for the JavaScript Pipeline Operator
This is great news for functionally-minded libraries such as Ramda, Sanctuary, Fluture, and many more. But it also makes some vanilla JavaScript nicer, for example:
ramda
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Tacit Programming
JavaScript is great for point-free programming! Make sure you check out Ramda.js https://ramdajs.com/
It’s fun in the sense that solving a puzzle is fun, but I avoid it for anything I need to maintain long-term.
But it’s good practice for understanding combinators which is useful for some kinds of problems.
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Pipeline-Oriented Programming [video]
This is very cool. I remember I got sucked into things like Ramda going down this functional programming rabbit hole :-)
https://ramdajs.com/
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Level up your Typescript game, functionally - Part 2
To create our pipeline, I'm going to use the pipe function from the NodeJS ramda library instead of building my own.
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Level up your Typescript game, functionally - Part 3
Other libraries to check out are pratica and ramda
- Ramda: A practical functional library for JavaScript programmers
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FP and JavaScript/TypeScript
I recently took ownership of the new types/ramda repo. This repo is re-exported by @types/ramda and is the first step to bringing type definitions for ramda in-house. We're already hard at work correcting major issues, adding full currying support, and general bug fixes
- [AskJS] Auto-Generated Documentation from JSDoc comments, nice modern themes?
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When to use currying in JavaScript
I'm going to be honest. You probably don't need to use currying in JavaScript. In fact, trying to fit it in your code is going to do more harm than good, unless it's just for fun. Currying only becomes useful when you fully embrace functional programming, which, in JavaScript, means using a library like Ramda instead of the standard built-in functions.
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No Lodash
Lodash gets so many things wrong I’d rather not see it in most projects. I appreciate a good utility library for JS projects but my go-to choice has to be Ramda[1]. Every function it exports is curried and works great with pipe which enables me to write highly reusable and composable functions in pointfree notation. I have never been as productive with lodash, and I find the functional style easier to read
[1] https://ramdajs.com/
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Snap.js - A competitor to Lodash
Do note though that ramda is different from rambda. đź‘Ť (Granted they are very similar!)
What are some alternatives?
rubico - [a]synchronous functional programming
lodash - A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras.
scriptum - Functional Programming Unorthodoxly Adjusted to Client-/Server-side Javascript
RxJS
adequate-guide-react - A sample app of usage of functional programming with React.
Rambda - Faster and smaller alternative to Ramda
posterus - Composable async primitives with cancelation, control over scheduling, and coroutines. Superior replacement for JS Promises.
immutable-js - Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity.
node-tda - NodeJS API for TDA
fp-ts - Functional programming in TypeScript
ppipe - pipes values through functions, an alternative to using the proposed pipe operator ( |> ) for ES
lazy.js - Like Underscore, but lazier