Ramda Guide
Preface
How to Use This Guide
What is Ramda?
Suggested Prerequisite Knowledge
Related Projects
A Tour of Ramda
Including Ramda In A Project
Documentation, Source Code, REPL, & Cookbook
Community Resources
Where We're Going
Weathering Our First Ramda Experience
Converting Temperature Units (add, multiply, divide)
Comparing Two Temperatures (min, minBy, max, maxBy)
Keep Looking Up (Object Properties)
Our Data: The ISS' Location
Reading Shallow Object Properties (prop, propOr, props, pick)
Testing Shallow Object Properties (has, propEq, propIs, propSatisfies)
Reading Deeply Nested Object Properties (path, pathOr, paths)
Testing Deeply Nested Object Properties (hasPath, pathEq, pathSatisfies)
Unshakeable Logic
Our Data: Earthquakes
Controlling Flow (ifElse, when, unless)
Functions Instead of && and || (and, or)
Higher-Order Conditionals (both, either)
"I don't not not like your faults..." (not)
Flipping a Functions' "Truthyness" or "Falsyness" (complement)
Logic in Batches (all, allPass, anyPass)
The Functional Version of a switch (cond)
Core Ramda Ideas
"Same Input → Same Output"
Functions' Argument Order
Provide Arguments When You Feel Like It (curry)
Composing Functional Pipelines of Data (o, compose, composeWith, tap)
Grokking the Ramda Documentation's Type Signatures
Updating Objects: Speaking the Lingua Ramda
Our Data: Languages Object
Setting Key/Value Pairs On An Object (assoc, assocPath)
Omitting Keys From an Object (omit, dissoc, dissocPath)
Merging Objects (mergeRight, mergeDeepRight, mergeLeft, mergeWith)
Updating Values If They Exist (evolve)
Strings: Tying Up Loose Ends
Our Data: Footwear
Uppercasing & Lowercasing Text (toUpper, toLower)
Scanning Text for Matches (match)
Sanitizing Hashtag Text (replace, trim, test, split)
All About ['L','i','s','t','s']
Our data: Nobel Prizes
What is a List?
Taking & Dropping Items (take, takeLast, takeWhile, drop, dropLast, dropWhile)
First & Last Item Groupings (head, tail, init, last)
Searching for Items (filter, reject, find, indexOf, findIndex)
Calling a Function On Every Item (map, forEach)
Inserting, Removing, & Updating Items (insert, insertAll, remove, without, update)
Reversing, Reordering, & Sorting Items (reverse, move, sort, sortBy)
Splitting Lists (slice, splitAt, splitEvery, splitWhen)
Reducing a List to a Single Value (reduce, reduceWhile, mapAccum)
Getting Unique Items (uniq, uniqBy, uniqWith)
Testing Lists With Conditions (includes, any, all, none, startsWith, endsWith)
Combining Lists (concat, union, union, intersection, difference, symmetricDifference, symmetricDifferenceWith)
Through the Lens
Our Data: Observatories
What is a Lens? (lens, lensIndex, lensProp, lensPath)
Safe Getters for Our Data (view)
Safe Setters for Our Data (set, over)
Misc
Converting an Existing API Into a Functional One (invoker)
Understanding Ramda Further by Recreating Parts of It
Using Ramda With TypeScript
Opinionated Best Practices
The Rule of 3
Type, Param, or Pseudo-Type Declarations
Writing Declarative Code That Tells a Story
You Might Not Need Ramda
Your Next Steps
Introducing FP at Work
How to Guide Others
The Larger FP World

Ramda Guide

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Ramda Guide

Ramda Guide

By Robert W. Pearce

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