Functional programming in JavaScript example with Lo-Dash

functional-table.html

<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/1.0.0-rc.3/lodash.js"></script>
<table id="people">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Id</th>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Email</th>
      <th>Occupation</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  </tbody>
</table>

functional-table.js

/*
 * Just some data that we may have gotten from a web service
 */
var Person = function Person(name, email, occupation) {
  this.id = _.uniqueId();
  this.name = name;
  this.email = email;
  this.occupation = occupation;
};
 
var data = [
  new Person("Tom Mason", "[email protected]", "History professor"),
  new Person("Sheldon Cooper", "[email protected]", "Theoretical physicist"),
  new Person("Luke Skywalker", "[email protected]", "Saviour of the universe"),
  new Person("Barney Stinson", "[email protected]", "?")
];
 
var output = document.body.querySelector("#people tbody");
 
/*
 * Some functions that will help us program in a functional way
 */
var propOf = function(obj) {
  return function(name) {
    return obj[name];
  };
};
 
var append = function(parent, child) {
  parent.appendChild(child);
  return parent;
};
 
var createTextNode = _.bind(document.createTextNode, document);
 
var wrap = function(elementType) {
  return function(child) {
    var parent = document.createElement(elementType);
    parent.appendChild(child);
    return parent;
  };
};
 
/*
 * Actual implementation in a functional style
 */
_(data).map(function(person) {
  return _(["id", "name", "email", "occupation"])
    .map(propOf(person))
    .map(createTextNode)
    .map(wrap('td'))
    .reduce(append, document.createElement("tr"));
}).reduce(append, output);
 
/*
 * The same solution with ECMAScript 5
 */
data.forEach(function(person) {
  var row = document.createElement("tr");
  
  ["id", "name", "email", "occupation"].forEach(function(prop) {
    var text = document.createTextNode(person[prop]);
    var td = document.createElement("td");
    td.appendChild(text);
    row.appendChild(td);
  });
  
  output.appendChild(row);
});