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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

A quick introduction to Qt GUI programming


Qt is a cross-platform application development framework for writing software that can run on numerous platforms as a native application without changing much code, with native platform capabilities and speed. Aside from GUI applications, we can also write console or command-line applications using the framework—but the primary use cases are graphical user interfaces.

Although applications using Qt are usually written in C++,  QML bindings to other languages also exist. Qt simplifies many aspects of C++ development, using comprehensive and powerful APIs and tools. Qt supports many compiler toolchains, such as the GCC C++ compiler and the Visual C++ compiler. Qt also provides Qt Quick (which includes QML, a declarative scripting language based on ECMAScript) to write logic. This helps with rapid application development for mobile platforms, although the logic can be written using native code for the best possible performance. The ECMAScript/C++ combination...