JS Functional Composition

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It is an approach where result of one function passed on to next function.

const add = (x, y) => x+y;

const subtract = (x) => x-4;

const multiply = (x) => x * 8;

// result of `add` is passed to `subtract` and its result passed to `multiply`.
const result = multiply(subtract(add(2, 3)));

result;
> 8

That looks readable but what if we have more functions to call one after other. Let's try little cleaner approach.

const compose = (...functions) => x => functions.reduceRight((total, f) => f(total), x);

const add = x => x+2;

const subtract = x => x-1;

const multiply = x => x * 8;

compose(multiply, subtract, add)(2);
> 24

We can also use reduce to implement:

const pipe = (...functions) => x => functions.reduce((total, f) => f(total), x);

const add = x => x+2;

const subtract = x => x-1;

const multiply = x => x * 8;

pipe(add, subtract, multiply)(2);
> 24

pipe - performs from left-to-right. compose - performs from right-to-left.