JavaScript Jabber28 Elo 2018

JSJ 328: Functional Programming with Ramda with Christine Legge

Panel:

Joe Eames
Aimee Knight
AJ O'Neal
Joe Eames

Special Guests: Christine LeggeIn this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Christine Legge about functional programming with Ramda. Christine is a front-end software engineer and just recently got a new job in New York working at Google. Ramda is a utility library in JavaScript that focuses on making it easier to write JavaScript code in a functional way. They talk about functional programming and what it is, using Ramda in Redux, and referential transparency. They also touch on why she first got into Ramda, compare Ramda to Lodash and Underscore, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Chirstine intro
Works as a front-end software engineer
What is Ramda?
JavaScript
Utility library like Lodash and Underscore
Lodash and Underscore VS Ramda
Functional programming
Ramda and Functional programming as a mindset
Ramda at ZenHub
Ramda with Redux and React
What is referential transparency?
Why would you use Ramda VS Lodash or Underscore?
Why she first got into Ramda
Didn’t always want to be a programmer
Background in Math
Learning functional programming as a new programmer
Erlang
DrRacket and Java
Ramda makes it easy to compose functions
Creating clean and reusable code
How do you start using Ramda?
And much, much more!

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