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Florian Spier • Edited

Yeah! There is more context needed to give a good answer. But this will be quickly off-topic of this blog post.
Maybe you can come to Angular Discord and put your question there?
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Feel free to add my discord nickname to your question: @spierala

Regarding State management with the DIY StateService with immutable data: it is recommended to NOT put deeply nested data into the Store/StateService. It becomes just to painful to do the immutable updates for deeply nested objects/arrays. It is better to keep the data structure as flat as possible and setup relations with just IDs.
It is the same challenge for every state management solution which uses immutable data (e.g. NgRx).

Also you have to consider, if really all data has to go to the Store / StateService.
Sometimes it is just one component which needs a specific piece of data. It can be OK to let the component itself fetch the data and forget about the data when the component is destroyed.

It is also important to know how "fresh" the data has to be. If you always need as fresh as possible data then you need to fetch the data again when it is needed by a component.

You can map data to your specific needs e.g. in the function which fetches the data with HttpClient.get and use rxjs/map to transform the data.
Or if the data is stored already in the StateService you could create other more specialized Observables in the Service which extends StateService and use rxjs/map again.

E.g.
todosWithOnlyName$ = this.todos$.pipe(map(todo => ({name: todo.name})))

You see there are a lot of options :)

See you on Discord :)