SUMMARY.md

Summary

• 1. Introduction
  • What does "pragmatism" mean?
  • The second chance
  • Less is more
  • Tooling
• 2. Roots of the evil
  • Null considered harmful
  • Mutability can kill your hamster
  • Take care with side-effects
  • Type coercion is a bad boy
  • Loops are so 80's
  • The Hadouken effect
  • Somebody stop this!
• 3. Meet ESLint
  • Restricting imperative syntax
  • Plugins to the rescue
• 4. Modules
  • The SOLID equivalence
  • Top-level declarations
• 5. The power of composition
  • Thinking in functions
  • Currying and partial application
  • Point-free programming
  • Piping and composing
  • Combinators
  • Lenses
• 6. Types
  • Why types matter
  • Flow is your friend
  • Don't abuse polymorphism
  • Algebraic data types
• 7. Transforming values
  • Lists
  • Objects
  • Functions
• 8. Monads, monoids and functors
  • What the hell is a monad?
  • Dealing with dangerous snakes
  • Handling state
  • Exceptions are not the rule
• 9. Async programming
  • So you still don't understand promises?
  • Futures
  • Tasks
  • Working with processes
  • Generators and lazy evaluation
• 10. Welcome to Fantasy Land
  • Unicorns and rainbows
  • Static Land
• 11. Hacking the compiler
  • Extending Babel
  • Sweet macros
• 12. A bit of theory
  • Lambda calculus
• 13. Functional languages targeting JavaScript
  • LiveScript
  • PureScript
  • ReasonML
  • Elm
  • ClojureScript
• 14. Solving real world problems
  • Integrating with external libraries
  • Validating data
  • Playing with files
  • Network requests
  • Testing
• 15. Final considerations
  • What should I learn now?