Immutable JS compare nested structures

Question

I have 2 nested structures newState and newState1.

But when I compare their, equals() or Immutable.is() returned false

Answer 1

It seems that immutablejs don't do deep conversion, so if your value is object, it stays to be object.

As you're creating different object in each update step, and those objects will be treat different when you compare to each other, so you should also convert it to Immutable.Map object, to make the compare be true.

// Primitives.
var test1 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a', 
    b: 'b', 
    c: 'c'
});
var test2 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: 'c'
});
console.log('Test primitive', test1.equals(test2)); // true

// Object
test1 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: {}
});
test2 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: {}
});
console.log('Test object', test1.equals(test2));  // false
// Its because
var a = {};
var b = {};
console.log('a === b?', a === b); // false

// Convert
test1 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: Immutable.Map({})
});
test2 = Immutable.Map({
    a: 'a',
    b: 'b',
    c: Immutable.Map({})
});
console.log('Test converted', test1.equals(test2)); // true