FP techniques that will help you write better JavaScript

• mostly-adequate-guide

  20 23,193 6.2 JavaScript

  Mostly adequate guide to FP (in javascript)

  

It’s been a while since I focused on FP, but I recall finding this useful quite often and gleaning the concepts from it relatively easily.

https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide

I found a lot of articles like the OP, and ultimately they left me confused about the benefits in the beginning. I found it more useful to avoid one off articles and dig into larger pieces of work where the author put in much more care.

• ramda

  80 23,592 6.8 JavaScript

  :ram: Practical functional Javascript

  

I worked on a project that used lodash/fp for a couple of years. It really is game-changing if you have a large object that you need to change in similar ways across different properties.

Theres also Ramda (https://ramdajs.com/), which I slightly prefer because the documentation is significantly better.

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• caniuse

  393 5,513 9.5 JavaScript

  Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

I think `for element of list` nowadays starts to become a realistic choice (without a transpiler) for that: https://caniuse.com/?search=for...of

• pythonic-ts

  1 1 2.6 TypeScript

  A collection of Python-style utility functions for iterators and collections

If anyone needs a typed JS version of Python's range, I prepared [this code](https://github.com/graup/pythonic-ts/blob/main/src/iterators...) to be a 1:1 match with the Python API. It also uses generators.

• javascript-allonge

  1 757 10.0 JavaScript

  Markdown source for the book "JavaScript Allongé"

I ran across this anecdote about how people don't know (or acknowledge?) the existence of the index argument of Array.map. This is a link to the manuscript of the well regarded book on JS FP techniques "Javascript Allonge". The index arg is not mentioned.

https://github.com/raganwald/javascript-allonge/blob/db7c435...

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