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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 combine Immutable.js collections, starting with merging maps together. When maps are merged, there are usually conflicts with keys. You get to decide what happens when there's a conflict. When merging lists, conflicts are based on indexes and these need to be dealt with accordingly.

We then looked at concatenating lists of values. Side-effects have an easier time dealing with one collection instead of several collections. You can lazily concatenate collections using sequences so that you don't have to allocate new collections.

Interposing values into collections means putting the same value in-between every collection value. Interleaving collections balances the placement of values from several collections into one collection.

In the next chapter, you'll see how we can use immutable collections to help us write better declarative code.