Functional programming has become a really hot topic in the jаvascript world. Just a few years ago, few jаvascript programmers even knew what functional programming is, but every large application codebase I have seen in the past 3 years makes heavy use of functional programming ideas.Functional programming (often abbreviated FP) is the process of building software by composing pure functions, avoiding shared state, mutable data, and side-effects.

Functional programming is declarative rather than imperative, and application state flows through pure functions. Contrast with object oriented programming, where application state is usually shared and colocated with methods in objects.Functional programming is a programming paradigm, meaning that it is a way of thinking about software construction based on some fundamental, defining principles (listed above). Other examples of programming paradigms include object oriented programming and procedural programming.