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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition
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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

by Gion Kunz
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Pure components

The idea of a "pure" component is that its whole state is represented by its inputs, where all inputs are immutable. This is effectively a stateless component, but additionally, all the inputs are immutable.

I like to call such components "pure" because their behaviour can be compared to the concept of pure functions in functional programming. A pure function is a function which has the following properties:

  • It does not rely on any state outside of the function scope
  • It always behaves the same and returns the same result if input parameters don't change 
  • It never changes any state outside the function scope (side effect)

With pure components, we have a simple guarantee. A pure component will never change without its input ...

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