I have been reading some articles about the open-closed principle and all seem to be related to OOP.

Is there a way to do open-closed principle in functional programming using Node.JS for example?

CodePudding user response：

Sure, indeed FP is all about reusing functions to build new ones.

For example:

You can declare a function add :: Number -> Number -> Number

const add = (x) => (y) => x   y

And then use add to build another function like mult :: Number -> Number -> Number

const mult = (x) => (y) => y === 0 ? 0 : x   mult(x)(y - 1)

Each function could be considered atomic, as there's no need to do further changes. So, by this way you don't modify previous functions, you re-use them to form new ones.

CodePudding user response：

There's several ways to achieve this principle, for example if you create classes, you can inherit the functions and then extend its functionality. For example:

class NumberConverter {
  isNumber(number) {
    return true;
  }

  convertBase(number, fromBase, toBase) {
    return parseInt(number, fromBase).toString(toBase);
  }
}

class DecimalToBinary extends NumberConverter {
  isDecimalNumber(number) {
    return true;
  }

  dec2bin(number) {
    return this.convertBase(number, 10, 2);
  }
}

You can see how you can extend the convertBase and extend its functionality. You can extend from multiple classes just adding a comma after each class like extends Products, Music.

But if you want to create another kind of approach, you can do composition instead of inheritance, meaning that with the previous example, you can make a new class like so:

class Calculator {
  properties;
  numberConverter;

  setDecimalConverter(numberConverter) {
    this.numberConverter = numberConverter;
  }

  convertDec2bin(number) {
    return this.numberConverter.convertBase(number, 10, 2);
  }
}

So then you can use the new class Calculator like this:

const calculator = new Calculator();
calculator.numberConverter = new NumberConverter(); // If you don't want to do this, you would have to add the NumberConverter in the Calculator constructor
calculator.convertDec2bin(5);

And all of this functionality can be done as a function. (Although it might not be exactly an open-closed principle, I think it still solves your use case). You can use it like this:

const Calculator = function(NumberConverter) {
  const numberConverter = NumberConverter;

  return {
    convertDec2bin(number) {
      return numberConverter.convertBase(number, 10, 2);
    }
  }  
}

const calculator = Calculator(NumberConverter());
calculator.convertDec2bin(5)