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How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development

by Ahmad Elalfy alfy.blog published 2025-10-0418 min read

A friend called me last week. Someone who’d built web applications back for a long time before moving exclusively to backend and infra work. He’d just opened a modern React codebase for the first time in over a decade.

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