JavaScript Monads

A key advantage of JavaScript over other programming language is on its ability to be “forced” to do something not normally found in other functions. For example, developers could write a totally different library on JavaScript and still expect the said library to be fully adopted. Browsers and JavaScript will do the rest of the interpretation.

Of course, a hastily created library will not yield the results developers would have. As long as the coding is properly done, developers could expect that the new function will work without any problem.

Keeping the ability of JavaScript to be pushed into other boundaries in mind, we focus our attention to functional programming. This type of coding is not language-specific which means technically, it can be used on other programming languages. However, JavaScript has the ability to fully implement the said functions created through functional programming.

In gist, functional programming is a technique that forces the programming language to implement the said function. At first glance it’s almost the same with regular coding but functional programming takes it a bit further – the coding with functional programming doesn’t expect any repercussions or “side effects”. It is almost a perfect programming technique since it will do what it says without any negative effects.

There are a good number of functional programming techniques a developer could use. But in the case of JavaScript, the smartest mode of functional programming would be the monadic version.

This form of functional programming helps in dealing with certain rules and restrictions of a programming language.   It is a very smart option for JavaScript since the language itself encounters a lot of exceptions especially on browser incompatibilities. If this problem could be addressed in JavaScript and Ajax, development could be a lot easier.

But aside from helping developers deal with exceptions on JavaScript, monads help developers increase efficiency in computation. This is very important in JavaScript and Ajax since these programming languages deal with a lot of data and computations.

The key to this feature on monads as functional programming is based on the fact that data has become part of the coding instead of being a simple data to be treated by functions. This improves JavaScript significantly since it will deal with data directly instead of treating it as another variable.

These facts about monads as functional programming may seem to aid developers in easing the development of applications. But there is a reason why functional programming is not adaptable in every JavaScript and Ajax based applications. Functional programming or more specifically, monads for JavaScript and Ajax are not easy to develop.

Aside from traditional coding with the use of native programming language (JavaScript), developers would have to use the non-conventional computations. A developer who just starts to understand how JavaScript and some of its functions work will find it hard to adopt monads.

On the other hand, this functional programming technique will not be ignored by many experienced developers. A tool or two will eventually be created so that monads with JavaScript will be a lot easier to configure.