Links I’ve encountered #5

It has been a while since I last posted on the site. I have been busy with moving plans and holding onto several gigs at a time.

From Callback to Future -> Functor -> Monad – Documenting the movement from callback based JS on towards a more Future based setup employing functional programming techniques.

JavaScript Journey – A very interesting repo that takes on solving one JS problem in as many different ways as possible. From simple procedural for...in loops all the way to reactive and even asm.js. Full blog post about it

Why mixins are harmful – I have only ever employed mixins when composing objects for passing state around. However, I would not advise on their usage in OOP style especially in prototypal JS. Raganwald goes farther in exploring how you can avoid certain caveats when using mixins, especially with ES6 modules.