May 3, 2022Microfrontends in Depth: Part 2 of *In part 1, I mentioned that microfrontend solutions aim at maximizing team efficiency. It allows teams to laser focus and release certain parts of an application independently and without worrying about the rest of the system. …Java Script6 min readJava Script6 min read
Feb 18, 2022Microfrontends in Depth: Part 1 of *Hello fellow developers from the blogosphere (or is it blogoverse?)! Haven’t been posting much recently in great part due to working on The Joy of JavaScript. …Java Script9 min readJava Script9 min read
Dec 2, 2017JavaScript à la MLI just finished reading An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson. Towards the end, the author teaches some SML and Lisp. I came across a handful of short functions that took advantage of SML’s structure pattern matching syntax and recursion, two very important functional features which…Functional Programming5 min readFunctional Programming5 min read
Aug 25, 2017Mixin Monoidal behavior in JavaScriptLike these ninjas, the term monoid is a bit aggressive and intimidating. In practice, though, it’s a actually a very simple concept with very powerful applications not only in mathematics, but in application code and programming language design. To begin, let’s define another stealthy concept — a Semigroup. Semigroup Semigroups are…Functional Programming10 min readFunctional Programming10 min read
Aug 9, 2017Kleisli Compositions in JavaScriptYou’ve probably read many times that the goal of functional programs is to achieve a state where you can compose only pure or side effect-free functions. One day, you sit at your computer at work determined to begin crafting your functions to meet this requirement. It’s all looking good, your…Functional Programming7 min readFunctional Programming7 min read
Aug 25, 2016The Observable disguised as an IO MonadSo, before we talk about IO and Observable monads, I’ll briefly explain what monads are. A monad is nothing more than an algebraic data type that follows a certain interface or protocol (this is by no means a complete explanation of monads, so I’ll refer you to this page for…Functional Programming7 min readFunctional Programming7 min read
May 25, 2016RxJS5 + PouchDB — persistent data flowsIn this new post, I plan to mix two fundamentally different ways of looking at data flows: static vs dynamic. We can think of static data as one that is durable or survives permanently; in contrast, dynamic data is always in flux and moving through the system — it’s transient…Java Script11 min readJava Script11 min read
Dec 22, 2015Understanding Lambda ExpressionsLambda expressions (or lambda functions) are essentially blocks of code that can be assigned to variables, passed as an argument, or returned from a function call, in languages that support high-order functions. They have been part of programming languages for quite some time. Some examples include Smalltalk, Lisp, Ruby, Scala…Functional Programming5 min readFunctional Programming5 min read
Oct 20, 2015Building cathedrals on the pillars of JavaScript and Functional ProgrammingRecently I came across an enlightening series of articles by Eric Elliott explaining the two pillars of JavaScript. These two foundational concepts that radically change the way in which we think about JavaScript programs, in his view, are: Favoring prototypal inheritance vs a classical inheritance mechanism The Two Pillars of JavaScript Part 1: How to Escape the 7th Circle of Hellmedium.com Writing code that is…Java Script4 min readJava Script4 min read
Jul 1, 2015Functional Programming — Preserving Type SafetyOverviewFunctional programming is a development paradigm centered around the use of functions. It’s not just a matter of using functions, but about the perspective and thought process you exercise when faced with a programming problem. In other words, it is a framework for the mind and your code. The goal of…Functional Programming5 min readFunctional Programming5 min read
