# Practical introduction to Functional Programming with JS

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## Currying

Currying is the technique of translating the evaluation of a function that takes multiple arguments into evaluating a sequence of functions, each with a single argument.

This becomes very easy using lambda functions and closures. Let's dive straight into code:

Get the even numbers in an array

So why is this useful? Because we are now able to pass the arguments at different points in time; this means that we can use currying to "construct" a function.

E.g.

Generic filter callback to check any property of an object

And now, time to get your hands dirty: remember the applyCoupon function we wrote in the previous chapter? It was very specific; now we want to create a curryable function that takes as arguments (in this order) category, discount between 0 and 1 (a 2$item with a 0.1 discount will cost 1.8$) and an item, and that returns the item with the correct price.
E.g.

const item = {
"name": "Biscuits",
"type": "regular",
"category": "food",
"price": 2.0
}

applyCoupon("food")(0.1)(item).price === 1.8


Remember to apply the discount only to the right items!

Implement applyCoupon as a curriable function
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