Functional Programming in TypeScript
Functional Programming in TypeScript
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About the Book
This book has been retired temporarily, to be improved. It will be resumed at January 2023.
Note: This is not an Introductory book in Javascript or TypeScript. The reader must have at least a couple of years of Javascript or TypeScript experience. Please read the Sample pdf to get an idea about the content of the book,also browse some of the codesandbox here [ https://codesandbox.io/u/dimitris-papadimitriou-chr/sandboxes]
A Paperback version is now Available in Amazon - Functional Programming in TypeScript
Book Description
This book goes beyond the introductory ideas of functional programming, while progressively building on practical examples in a comprehensive manner. Each example is accompanied by an online autonomous fiddle TypeScript code [ https://codesandbox.io/u/dimitris-papadimitriou-chr/sandboxes], which you can run fork and modify, in order to deepen your understanding of each section.
By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of the ideas behind functional TypeScript or JavaScript that will allow you to program in a functional style with confidence. Also, you will have an overview of how famous functional libraries like fp-ts, purify, etc. have implemented the different functional concepts.
What you will learn:
- Go beyond the Array.map by understanding how to generalize the idea of map to Functors like Maybe, Either and Promises, etc.
- Go beyond the idea of Array.reduce by understanding the concepts of fold and catamorphism over data structures.
- Learn how to combine functional ideas in order to solve practical problems.
- Use Monads like Maybe, Either, IO, Continuations, and Promises to chain computations.
- Get a deep understanding of recursive methods and learn how to define recursive methods on algebraic data structures.
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Table of Contents
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1.1 Categories 10
- 1.2 Essential Lambda calculus with Js 12
- 1.3 SKI combinators 13
- 1.4 Minimum Type theory 15
- 1.5 String Diagrams 15
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2 The Pillars 18
- 2.1 Monoids 18
- 2.1.1 Function composition as a monoid 21
- 2.1.2 Composing monoids 25
- 2.1.3 Folding monoids 23
- 2.2 folding functions under composition 25
- 2.2.1 Monoid homomorphisms and Parallelism 27
- 2.3 Higher order functions 30
- 2.3.1 Strategy pattern 30
- 2.4 Currying and partial application 32
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3 Algebraic Data Types 37
- 3.1 The product structure: 37
- 3.1.1 Introduction / Elimination 39
- 3.2 The co-product structure: 40
- 3.2.1 Introduction / Elimination 42
- 3.3 One 43
- 3.4 Recursive Algebraic Types 44
- 3.4.1 On the value of the symbolic representation 45
- 3.5 Extending Union Types 47
- 3.5.1 Adding pattern matching 47
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4 Functors 49
- 4.1 The Identity Functor 49
- 4.2 Commutative Diagrams 50
- 4.3 The Functor Laws 51
- 4.4 Extending Promise as Functor 53
- 4.4.1 The Promise - functor laws 53
- 4.5 IO Functor, a Lazy Id Functor 54
- 4.5.1 Thunks 54
- 4.5.2 IO Functor 55
- 4.6 Reader Functor 56
- 4.7 Maybe Functor 58
- 4.7.0 Dealing with null - Null object Design pattern 58
- 4.7.1 The Null Object Design pattern 58
- 4.7.2 The Functional equivalent - Maybe as Functor 59
- 4.8 Either Functor 60
- 4.9 Either for exception handling 61
- 4.1 functors from Algebraic Data types 64
- 4.11 Functor Composition 66
- 4.12 Applicative Functor 68
- 4.13 Reader Applicative Functor 69
- 4.14 Composing Applicatives 71
- 4.15 Decorator design pattern functional idiom with functor 72
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5 An Introduction to Catamorphisms 74
- 5.1 Catamorphisms 74
- 5.1.1 Union types cata 75
- 5.1.2 Recursive types cata 76
- 5.2 Catamorphisms through the Visitor Design pattern 77
- 5.2.1 Extending Union Types: Using cata 78
- 5.3 Folds 78
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6 Traversable 79
- 6.1 Traversable Array with Either applicative for validation 81
- 6.2 Traversable Algebraic data structures 82
- 6.3 Identity Traversable 83
- 6.4 Applicative Reader Isomorphism with the Interpreter Design pattern 83
- 6.5 Composing Traversables 86
- 6.6 Foldable 86
- 6.6.1 FoldMap 88
- 6.6.2 filter 88
- 6.6.3 Mixins 88
- 6.6.4 Composing Foldables 89
- 6.6.5 Iterators 90
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6 Monads
- 6.1 Maybe Monad ... 105
- 6.2 Either Monad ... 108
- 6.2.1 Natural Transformation Between Maybe and Either ... 109
- 6.2.2 Using Either Monad exception handling ... 110
- 6.3 Promise as a Monad ... 112
- Dissecting the Promise.then method 112 ...
- 6.3.1 The then as a monadic Bind ... 113
- 6.4 Combining Promises and Either ... 118
- 6.5 Combining Promises and Either - Example ... 119
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