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React.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React

Meta Developers · 158.6K views · 2015-02-03 · 31:11

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Overview

Lee Byron of Facebook explains how persistent immutable data structures work and how to use them in React apps with Immutable.js. He covers memoization benefits and avoiding coupling through shared mutable state.

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HN points to it as a clear explanation of immutable data structures such as tries, and of the case for immutability with React and Flux.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2015–2022

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Web developmentFunctional programmingAlgorithms & data structures
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What people said

jamesgpearce · 2022-06 · Recommendation

Lee Byron on Immutable/React/Flux: [VIDEO] “I only have a minute left, which is more than enough time to build the undo stack”

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icc97 · 2017-12 · Recommendation

I found the explanation from the Immutable JS presentation easier to understand when talking about Immutable data structures [0] [0]: [VIDEO]

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clay_to_n · 2017-05 · Recommendation

For anyone interested, there's a great conference talk on this topic by Lee Byron from Facebook: [VIDEO]

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