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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

Subsets and supersets


Immutable.js lists have a couple of complimentary methods that are handy for checking whether one list is part of another. Using these methods, you can avoid setting up your own elaborate reducing mechanism.

List subsets

If you want to know that a list belongs to another list, you can use the isSubset() method:

const myList = List.of(
  List.of(1, 2, 3),
  List.of(4, 5, 6),
  List.of(7, 8, 9)
);
const isSubset = List.of(1, 4, 7)
  .isSubset(myList.flatten());

console.log('isSubset', isSubset);
// -> isSubset true

The myList collection is a list of lists. So once you flatten it, you can pass it to the isSubset() method when it's called on the list: List.of(1, 4, 7). This returns true because myList contains each of these values.

List supersets

The other approach is to use the isSuperset() method, which determines if the argument is a subset of the collection where we're calling the method:

const myList = List.of(
  List.of(1, 2, 3),
  List.of(4, 5, 6),
  List.of(7, 8, 9...