JSJ 313: Light Functional JavaScript with Kyle Simpson

Panel:

AJ ONeal
Aimee Knight
Joe Eames

Special Guests: Kyle Simpson

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss light functional JavaScript with Kyle Simpson. Kyle is most well-known for writing the books You Don’t Know JS and is on the show today for his book Functional-Light JavaScript. They talk about what functional programming is, what side-effects are, and discuss the true heart behind functional programming. They also touch on the main focus of functional programming and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

You Don’t Know JS
Functional-Light JavaScript
From the same spirit as first books
JavaScript
Documents journey of learning
What does Functional Programming mean?
Functional programming is being re-awoken
Many different definitions
History of functional programming
Programming with functions
What is a function?
“A collection of operations of doing some task” is what people think functions are
What a function really is
Map inputs to outputs
What is a side-effect?
Side-effects should be intentional and explicit
The heart of functional programming
Refactoring
Can’t write a functional program from scratch
What functional programming focuses on
Making more readable and reliable code
Pulling a time-stamp
Defining a side-effect
And much, much more!

Links:

You Don’t Know JS
Functional-Light JavaScript
JavaScript
Kyle’s GitHub
@getify

Picks:

Aimee

What Does Code Readability Mean?
@FunctionalKnox
HTTP 203 Podcast

AJ

IKEA

Joe

Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
Workshops in general

Kyle

GDPR
The start-up’s guide to the GDPR
Hatch
Fluent Conf