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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


This chapter introduced you to the concept of using side-effects from Immutable.js method call chains to render UI elements. We first looked at how to do this using nothing but Immutable.js and native DOM methods. Using the techniques for composing behavior that you learned in Chapter 13, Declarative Decision Making, you composed event handling behavior and filtering behavior for the episodes to render.

You then implemented the same UI using the same Immutable.js techniques, but now using React as the UI component library. In the end, it doesn't matter what tooling you're using in your application—the tools and techniques you've learned about Immutable.js are universally applicable.

In the next chapter, we'll continue our discussion on side-effects, except we'll shift the focus to Node.js environments.