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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Immutable.js

As we have learned in this chapter, one of the main ideas in FP is minimizing the number of places in which state is mutated in our application. However, in JavaScript, objects are not immutable, which we can lead us to mutate the application's state by mistake. For example, we could try to sort an array using the following function:

function sort(arr: number[]) { 
    return arr.sort((a, b) => b - a); 
} 

The preceding function could lead to issues because the sort method mutates the original array. This example is a demonstration of what is known as an implicit mutation. We mutated the application's state, but we didn't do it explicitly. Immutable.js helps us to make all the mutations in our application explicit.

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