The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Serverless computing allows developers to create workflows for complex tasks through the composition of serverless functions. Current serverless workflow engines rely on master-side pattern which do ...

Explore the increasingly popular paradigm of functional programming in JavaScript! You’ll learn how to wield and manipulate functions to develop more readable, maintainable and manageable codebases.

This is a package for validating input in requests using functional composition. It runs in both browsers and Node.js, and is well-suited for sharing validations between both of these environments.

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful!