What are some ways in which to deep clone my state inside an Action?
Possible solutions I’ve seen are Immer.js, JSON.parse(JSON.stringify), or create a recursive function which does a deep clone. I was even thinking of recreating what Redux does and create Reducers and combine them for my entire state but there are reasons which I decided against it. I like in Aurelia store how I can push Actions to the store, inside each Custom Element’s bind() method. I believe this is a better way because it promotes high cohesion and low coupling. Whereas with Redux I had all my Actions and Reducers centralized with the store.
I’ve never used Immer.js and I was wondering what are some Pros and Cons of using it?
I like the idea of using JSON.parse(JSON.stringify) because it ensures my state is serializable at all times. Which will be good if I want to persist my state to some type of storage. It allows me to identify problems early like when I tried to use Set and Map object types and I quickly found out that those don’t serilize/deserialize with the above methods. But I’m wondering if my store grows too large will JSON.parse(JSON.stringify) become too slow?
Then there is the option of just creating a recursive function which copies my state. Has anyone tried this?
Thanks
EDIT - September 26, 2018 I also asked this question on the aurelia discourse forum and received some helpful responses there. https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/using-aurelia-store-what-is-the-best-way-to-copy-your-state-within-actions/
