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Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) provides standard data objects in JSON format for the healthcare industry. Since JSON objects are hierarchical and tree-like, we had a need to defensively 'pluck' fields from our JSON objects and do lots of mapping. We tried jQuery and Underscore and a few other technologies like FHIRPath; but Lodash has been the most well supported, works in the most contexts, has the cleanest syntax, etc. We particularly like the ES6 version of Lodash, where we can import the method names directly, without resorting to * or _ syntax. We got hooked on the 'get' function to defensively pluck fields from objects without crashing our user interface, and have found countless uses for the other lodash functions throughout our apps. Lodash is great for developing and optimizing algorithms.

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Pros of Immutable.js
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    Immutable data structures
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    Allows you to mimic functional programming
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    Bring the functional experience to JS
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    Makes writing Javascript less scary
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    Easily transpiles to different ES standards
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    Better than Underscore
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    Simple
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    Better that Underscore
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    Utility
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    Simple
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    Functional programming
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    Fast
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    Open source
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    Backbone
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    Javascript
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    Annotated source code
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      It reduce the performance
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      What is Immutable.js?

      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 Lodash?

      A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. It provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm.

      What is Underscore?

      A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

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