Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements. Traditional methods like slice, splice, and push/pop do this by operating on the array ...

Any time you’re writing code, it means the code is going to be doing work for you. Many times, the burden of that work is transparent to us and our users. When it does make itself apparent, we have a ...

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Web developer Smore has created a fully-functional JavaScript version of the infamous Microsoft Agent, aka Clippy and friends. Web developer Smore has created a fully-functional JavaScript version of ...

Higher-order functions let you treat functions like any other value — passing them around, returning them, and composing them for cleaner, more reusable code. They power everyday tools like map, ...