In one of our current customer’s projects we are working with jQuery. And I am glad that the functional programming basics are already kind of standard across JS libraries. Especially with dojo I started to love the functional approaches and realized that they are really helpful in a lot of situations, especially when doing data processing. One of the best known functions is the map function, which “creates a new array with the results of calling a provided function on every element in this array” [from Mozilla's Core JS References]. Though dojo and jQuery implement this function there are slight differences.
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