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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Events and state updaters


We have our initial application state, and we have our app() function that's used to produce new state. Now we have to figure out the various ways in which our application state mutates in response to user interactions.

Updating the search query

As the user types, we want to render only episodes that match the search text. To do this, we have to use our app() function to update the state. Here's what this looks like:

document
  .querySelector('header input[type="search"]')
  .addEventListener('input', e => app(state => state.setIn(
    ['results', 'query'],
    e.target.value
  )));

The setIn() function is used here to set the query state, nested inside of the results state. The array that's passed to setIn() is a path to follow as the map is traversed. The value is updated to reflect the value of the search input box.

Realizing that all we're doing here is changing the state of the application is important. We're not actually running the filter—this is part of...