Stop beach balling with this one simple trick

Fix #10094

The problem is with toJS being called to convert the immutable app state

Instead we just keep everything in Immutable

app/common/state/immutableUtil.js

@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ const api = {
 
   makeImmutable: (obj) => {
     return api.isImmutable(obj) ? obj : Immutable.fromJS(obj)
+  },
+
+  deleteImmutablePaths: (obj, paths) => {
+    return paths.reduce((result, path) => {
+      if (path.constructor === Array) {
+        return result.deleteIn(path)
+      }
+      return result.delete(path)
+    }, obj)
   }
 }
 

app/index.js

@@ -94,19 +94,19 @@ const defaultProtocols = ['http', 'https']
 let loadAppStatePromise = SessionStore.loadAppState()
 
 // Some settings must be set right away on startup, those settings should be handled here.
-loadAppStatePromise.then((initialState) => {
+loadAppStatePromise.then((initialImmutableState) => {
   telemetry.setCheckpointAndReport('state-loaded')
   const {HARDWARE_ACCELERATION_ENABLED, SMOOTH_SCROLL_ENABLED, SEND_CRASH_REPORTS} = require('../js/constants/settings')
-  if (initialState.settings[HARDWARE_ACCELERATION_ENABLED] === false) {
+  if (initialImmutableState.getIn('settings', HARDWARE_ACCELERATION_ENABLED) === false) {
     app.disableHardwareAcceleration()
   }
-  if (initialState.settings[SEND_CRASH_REPORTS] !== false) {
+  if (initialImmutableState.getIn(['settings', SEND_CRASH_REPORTS]) !== false) {
     console.log('Crash reporting enabled')
     CrashHerald.init()
   } else {
     console.log('Crash reporting disabled')
   }
-  if (initialState.settings[SMOOTH_SCROLL_ENABLED] === false) {
+  if (initialImmutableState.getIn(['settings', SMOOTH_SCROLL_ENABLED]) === false) {
     app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-smooth-scrolling')
   }
 })
@@ -158,18 +158,17 @@ app.on('ready', () => {
     appActions.networkDisconnected()
   })
 
-  loadAppStatePromise.then((initialState) => {
+  loadAppStatePromise.then((initialImmutableState) => {
     // Do this after loading the state
     // For tests we always want to load default app state
-    const loadedPerWindowState = initialState.perWindowState
-    delete initialState.perWindowState
+    const loadedPerWindowImmutableState = initialImmutableState.get('perWindowState')
+    initialImmutableState = initialImmutableState.delete('perWindowState')
     // Restore map order after load
-    let state = Immutable.fromJS(initialState)
-    appActions.setState(state)
-    setImmediate(() => perWindowStateLoaded(loadedPerWindowState))
+    appActions.setState(initialImmutableState)
+    setImmediate(() => perWindowStateLoaded(loadedPerWindowImmutableState))
   })
 
-  const perWindowStateLoaded = (loadedPerWindowState) => {
+  const perWindowStateLoaded = (loadedPerWindowImmutableState) => {
     // TODO(bridiver) - this shold be refactored into reducers
     // DO NOT ADD ANYHING TO THIS LIST
     // See tabsReducer.js for app state init example
@@ -184,12 +183,12 @@ app.on('ready', () => {
     AdInsertion.init()
     PDFJS.init()
 
-    if (!loadedPerWindowState || loadedPerWindowState.length === 0) {
+    if (!loadedPerWindowImmutableState || loadedPerWindowImmutableState.size === 0) {
       if (!CmdLine.newWindowURL()) {
         appActions.newWindow()
       }
     } else {
-      loadedPerWindowState.forEach((wndState) => {
+      loadedPerWindowImmutableState.forEach((wndState) => {
         appActions.newWindow(undefined, undefined, wndState)
       })
     }
@@ -304,12 +303,12 @@ app.on('ready', () => {
     // DO NOT TO THIS LIST - see above
 
     // We need the initial state to read the UPDATE_TO_PREVIEW_RELEASES preference
-    loadAppStatePromise.then((initialState) => {
+    loadAppStatePromise.then((initialImmutableState) => {
       updater.init(
         process.platform,
         process.arch,
         process.env.BRAVE_UPDATE_VERSION || app.getVersion(),
-        initialState.settings[settings.UPDATE_TO_PREVIEW_RELEASES]
+        initialImmutableState.getIn('settings', settings.UPDATE_TO_PREVIEW_RELEASES)
       )
 
       // This is fired by a menu entry