Anjana Vakil
Software Engineer & Educator
Functional JavaScript Learning PathPower Up Your JavaScript with Functional Programming
Program by composing pure functions, avoiding shared state, mutable data, and side-effects.
Total time: 22 hours, 34 minutes
Core Coursework
Take these in order
Prerequisite: JavaScript: From First Steps to Professional or intermediate experience with JavaScript
Editor's Note
Get a friendly introduction to functional programming with JavaScript! You’ll learn what Functional Programming (FP) is and how it differs from other programming styles like object-oriented and imperative.
Functional JavaScript First Steps
Learn core functional programming course and code everything with pure functions, learning recursion, higher-order functions, closures, and function composition.
Editor's Note
Forming a mental model around complex functional programming concepts will deepen your understanding and help you learn how to apply them to your code.
The Hard Parts of Functional JavaScript
Will Sentance
Codesmith
Go under the hood of powerful techniques like: Higher Order Functions, Function Composition, Pure Functions, and Immutability of State.
Editor's Note
Get hands-on practice applying the functional programming techniques you’ve learned throughout this learning path.
Functional-Light JavaScript, v3
Kyle Simpson
You Don't Know JS
Improve your JavaScript by applying functional programming concepts like function purity, point-free, partial-application, currying, plus even more advanced concepts.
Editor's Note
Dive head first into the deep end of the functional programming pool. Brian provides expert-level functional programming techniques to a variety of code examples.
Hardcore Functional Programming in JavaScript, v2
Brian Lonsdorf
Salesforce
Learn functional programming concepts such as pure functions, currying, composition, functors, monads, and see functional concepts in action!
Editor's Note
You are now a functional programming expert. Use the optional courses below to learn additional patterns, apply these techniques to state management, and use the functional programming features of languages like Elm, Rust, and Go.
Elective Coursework
Optional, take in any order
Hardcore Functional Architecture Patterns in JavaScript
Brian Lonsdorf
Salesforce
Learn functional programming architecture patterns to apply, such as Monoids, Monad Transformers, Free Monads, and Lenses. See functional programming in action!
Redux Fundamentals (feat. React)
Steve Kinney
Temporal
Learn the Redux API from scratch, then learn to hook the Redux React application. You'll also learn how to extend Redux with various tools from its ecosystem.
Introduction to Elm, v2
Richard Feldman
Vendr, Inc.
Learn how to write applications with the Elm, the functional programming language, from the ground up. Read more!
Advanced Elm
Richard Feldman
Vendr, Inc.
Join JS and Elm expert Richard Feldman in the "Advanced Elm" course. Learn how to organize and scale your Elm applications with authentication, css-in-Elm, and more!
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