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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

Interposing and interleaving


Interposing means inserting the same value in-between every value in the indexed collection. Interleaving is like concatenation, except that the order of the resulting values is alternated between input lists based on the order of the collection arguments.

Lazily interposing values

Sometimes you need to separate your collection values using a static value. You could, for example, add this value to your side-effect as needed. The downside to this approach is that you would then have a side-effect code that now has to do something that's better handled by the Immutable.js chaining pattern.

Using the interpose() method, you can maintain the chainable method call pattern while passing separator data to your side-effects. Moreover, you can do this lazily as follows:

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

myList
  .toSeq()
  .filter((v) => {
    console.log('filtering', v);
    return v % 2;
  })
  .interpose('...')
  .forEach(v => console.log(v));
  /...