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Thinking functionally in JavaScript (part one)

Over the Christmas break, when traditionally things are a little quieter at work, I do a bit of research into topics that interest me and that might have some bearing on our future products. This year was no exception and I decided to investigate React, Facebook’s library (framework?) for building user interfaces for the web. It’s a fascinating library to be sure (and I’ll talk more on it in another post), but there was one paradigm it uses which I haven’t really talked about before: immutability. Don’t get me wrong: sure, React components have properties and state, but the way they change (or rather are allowed to change) is very circumscribed. […]

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