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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to use Immutable.js collections as a tool to aid in declarative decision making. Maps are the foundation of this idea, because you can use them to look up a behavior to run based on keys. They also allow you to run default behavior when nothing is found—kind of like an else block.

You also learned how to compose complex behavior that models logical AND/OR decisions. Once again, Immutable.js collection methods helped us here. With these two things in place, you composed complex application behavior in an easy-to-understand way.

In the next chapter, we'll use side-effects to render actual UI elements.