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C++ Reactive Programming

By : Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham
Book Image

C++ Reactive Programming

By: Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications with an easy-to-maintain code base. This book covers the essential functional reactive concepts that will help you build highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications in a simpler and less error-prone way. C++ Reactive Programming begins with a discussion on how event processing was undertaken by different programming systems earlier. After a brisk introduction to modern C++ (C++17), you’ll be taken through language-level concurrency and the lock-free programming model to set the stage for our foray into the Functional Programming model. Following this, you’ll be introduced to RxCpp and its programming model. You’ll be able to gain deep insights into the RxCpp library, which facilitates reactive programming. You’ll learn how to deal with reactive programming using Qt/C++ (for the desktop) and C++ microservices for the Web. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with advanced reactive programming concepts in modern C++ (C++17).
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

An introduction to marble diagrams for visual representation


It is difficult to visualize Rx Streams, as the data flows asynchronously. The designers of Rx systems have created a set of visualization cues called marble diagrams: Let us write a small program and depict logic of the map Operator as a marble diagram.

//------------------ Map.cpp 
#include "rxcpp/rx.hpp" 
#include "rxcpp/rx-test.hpp" 
#include <ioStream> 
#include <array> 
int main() { 
    auto ints = rxcpp::observable<>::range(1,10). 
                 map( [] ( int n  ) {return n*n; }); 
    ints.subscribe( 
            [](int v){printf("OnNext: %dn", v);}, 
            [](){printf("OnCompletedn");}); 
} 

Rather than giving a description of marble diagrams, let's look at a marble diagram that depicts the map operator:

The top part of the marble diagram shows a timeline where a series of values (represented as circles) are displayed. Each of the value will be passing through a map Operator, which takes a lambda...