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What is currying in JavaScript?

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Currying is an advanced technique to transform a function of arguments n, to n functions of one or fewer arguments.

Example of a curried function:

function add (a) {
return function(b){
return a + b;
}
}

add(3)(4) 

For Example, if we have a function f(a,b), then the function after currying, will be transformed to f(a)(b).

By using the currying technique, we do not change the functionality of a function, we just change the way it is invoked.

Let’s see currying in action:

function multiply(a,b){
return a*b;
}

function currying(fn){
return function(a){
return function(b){
return fn(a,b);
}
}
}

var curriedMultiply = currying(multiply);

multiply(4, 3); // Returns 12

curriedMultiply(4)(3); // Also returns 12

As one can see in the code above, we have transformed the function multiply(a,b) to a function curriedMultiply , which takes in one parameter at a time.


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