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Immutable.js vs UglifyJS: What are the differences?
What is Immutable.js? Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity, by Facebook. Immutable provides Persistent Immutable List, Stack, Map, OrderedMap, Set, OrderedSet and Record. They are highly efficient on modern JavaScript VMs by using structural sharing via hash maps tries and vector tries as popularized by Clojure and Scala, minimizing the need to copy or cache data.
What is UglifyJS? JavaScript parser / mangler / compressor / beautifier library for NodeJS. This package implements a general-purpose JavaScript parser/compressor/beautifier toolkit. It is developed on NodeJS, but it should work on any JavaScript platform supporting the CommonJS module system (and if your platform of choice doesn’t support CommonJS, you can easily implement it, or discard the exports.* lines from UglifyJS sources).
Immutable.js and UglifyJS belong to "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Immutable.js and UglifyJS are both open source tools. Immutable.js with 27.8K GitHub stars and 1.61K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than UglifyJS with 8.12K GitHub stars and 761 GitHub forks.
Instagram, Rove.me, and Broadly are some of the popular companies that use Immutable.js, whereas UglifyJS is used by bitHOUSEweb S.r.l., Atbox, and Glitch. Immutable.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to UglifyJS, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.
Pros of Immutable.js
- Immutable data structures8
- Allows you to mimic functional programming5
- Bring the functional experience to JS2
- Makes writing Javascript less scary1
- Easily transpiles to different ES standards1
Pros of UglifyJS
- Great for javascript minification0