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Mastering Immutable.js

By : Adam Boduch
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Mastering Immutable.js

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Immutable.js is a JavaScript library that will improve the robustness and dependability of your larger JavaScript projects. All aspects of the Immutable.js framework are covered in this book, and common JavaScript situations are examined in a hands-on way so that you gain practical experience using Immutable.js that you can apply across your own JavaScript projects. The key to building robust JavaScript applications using immutability is to control how data flows through your application, and how the side-effects of these flows are managed. Many problems that are difficult to pinpoint in large codebases stem from data that’s been mutated where it shouldn’t have been. With immutable data, you rule out an entire class of bugs. Mastering Immutable.js takes a practical, hands-on approach throughout, and shows you the ins and outs of the Immutable.js framework so that you can confidently build successful and dependable JavaScript projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Collection differences


Differences are the inverse of intersections. They consist of all of the values that are not in every collection. If you add together the intersection and the difference, you get all of the collection values.

Set differences

Sets have a subtract() method, which can be used to find the difference between two sets. Here's an example:

const mySet1 = Set.of('first', 'second', 'third');
const mySet2 = Set.of('first', 'second');
const myDiff1 = mySet1.subtract(mySet2);
const myDiff2 = mySet2.subtract(mySet1);

console.log('mySet1', mySet1.toJS());
// -> mySet1 [ 'first', 'second', 'third' ]
console.log('mySet2', mySet2.toJS());
// -> mySet2 [ 'first', 'second' ]
console.log('myDiff1', myDiff1.toJS());
// -> myDiff1 [ 'third' ]
console.log('myDiff2', myDiff2.toJS());
// -> myDiff2 []

This method subtracts the set argument from the set on which the subtract() method is called. In myDiff1, you can see that the 'first' and 'second' values are the intersecting values...