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Mastering Immutable.js

You're reading from   Mastering Immutable.js Better JavaScript development using immutable data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395113
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Why Immutable.js? FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Immutable Data 3. Persistent Changes 4. Filtering Collections and Finding Items 5. Sequences and Side-Effects 6. Sorting Collections 7. Mapping and Reducing 8. Zipping and Flattening 9. Persistent Change Detection 10. Working with Sets 11. Comparing Collections 12. Combining Collections 13. Declarative Decision Making 14. Side-Effects in User Interfaces 15. Side-Effects in Node.js 16. Immutable Architecture

Parameters and defaults

The preceding example has a couple of limitations. First, there's no way to pass arguments to the behaviors when they're called. Second, if you try to call something that doesn't exist, it blows up. We should be able to address both of these issues.

Providing default behavior

When the caller attempts to call a behavior that doesn't exist by passing a key that doesn't exist in the behavior map, you should be able to recover from this. Thankfully, the get() method accepts a second argument that's returned if the requested key doesn't exist:

const myBehavior = action => Map.of(
true, () => console.log('thruth'),
false, () => console.log('lies...
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