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From Lambda Calculus to React

Everything here is highly recommended. I've put *s by the things I believe to be absolute musts.

Lambda Calculus

• Computerphile Introduction to Lambda Calculus*
• Y Not - Adventures in Functional Programming* - truly amazing talk about recursion in Lambda Calculus
• The Universe in a Single Arrow: A Live Dive into the Lambda Calculus - React Rally 2019 talk
• Lambda Calculus Wikipedia Entry

Lisp and S-expressions

• Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I* - John McCarthy's original paper where he introduces Lisp and S-expressions; though academic, it is surprisingly approachable
• Reagent - what it looks like to write React with a Lisp
• S-expression Wikipedia Entry

Immutability and Hash Array Mapped Tries

• The Future of MVC Frameworks- David Nolen's post detailing his performance gains with ClojureScript and Om, his React Cljs library
• Immutable Data and React* - Lee Byron's introduction to Immutable.js
• Introduction to HAMTs
• Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors
• Ideal Hash Trees - difficult, academic paper

Algebraic Effects

• Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us*

Takeaways

• React Basic Conceptual Model* - React mental model as understood by Sebastian Markbåge, React core team member; these concepts help to pull everything together

Write React in a functional language! At least for small demo projects. This has been an immensely rewarding experience in my own case.***

• ReasonML - OCaml for JS; statically typed language developed by the creator of React; you can think of this as the way the React creator intended it to be written
• ClojureScript - re-frame & Learn re-frame, Rum, Om (I prefer re-frame)
• Elm - Haskell for JS; statically typed; heavily inspired Redux