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Immutable.js vs JS Beautifier: What are the differences?
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; JS Beautifier: Beautify, unpack or deobfuscate JavaScript and HTML, make JSON/JSONP readable, etc. This little beautifier will reformat and reindent bookmarklets, ugly JavaScript, unpack scripts packed by Dean Edward’s popular packer, as well as deobfuscate scripts processed by javascriptobfuscator.com.
Immutable.js and JS Beautifier can be categorized as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.
Immutable.js and JS Beautifier are both open source tools. Immutable.js with 27.8K GitHub stars and 1.61K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than JS Beautifier with 6.29K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks.
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