What Are JavaScript Programming Paradigms?

And where do React Hooks fit in?

What you need to know for a technical interview:

• Know what a paradigm is and why JS is multi-paradigm
• Be able to explain OOP and prototypal inheritance
• Be able to contrast OOP with functional programming

Adapted from this article by Bhumika Rani by Geek for Geeks

What are the two programming paradigms important for JavaScript app developers?

JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language, but what does that mean?

Let’s define what a programming paradigm is first.

Modern programming languages fall into two categories: imperative (also called procedural) and declarative (also called functional).

Object-oriented programming (OOP), procedural programming, and parallel processing are examples of the imperative programming paradigm.

Functional programming, logic programming, and database processing are examples of the declarative programming paradigm.

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