Bidirectional Associations
Explore how to manage bidirectional associations in object-oriented JavaScript by defining one property as the leader and the other as a derived follower. Understand one-to-one and many-to-many association cases and how these relationships keep models consistent and up to date.
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How to eliminate bidirectional associations
A bidirectional association is replaced with a mutually inverse reference property pair. If we consider the association between the classes Book and Author, shown in the model in the figure below, we have the Book::authors and Author::authoredBooks pair. Since both reference ...