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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, we looked at mapping and reducing Immutable.js collections, starting with producing simple values. We then looked at mapping lists of maps to new lists of maps, adding or removing keys along the way. Reducing collections means iterating over them and producing a value. If you can filter or map the collection instead, this should be the preferred approach.

Lazy evaluation is central to transforming Immutable.js collections before passing them to side-effects. We looked at how map() fits into lazy workflows and how it forms a common pattern for your applications in conjunction with filter() and reduce().

In the next chapter, we'll look at some more advanced techniques for mapping and reducing collections.