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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an innovative programming paradigm focused on time-based problem solving. It makes your programs better-performing, easier to scale, and more reliable. Want to create fast-running applications to handle complex logics and huge datasets for financial and big-data challenges? Then you have picked up the right book! Starting with the principles of reactive programming and unveiling the power of the pull-programming world, this book is your one-stop solution to get a deep practical understanding of reactive programming techniques. You will gradually learn all about reactive extensions, programming, testing, and debugging observable sequence, and integrating events from CLR data-at-rest or events. Finally, you will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and providers, and exploring functional reactive programming. By the end of the book, you'll know how to apply reactive programming to solve complex problems and build efficient programs with reactive user interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Reactive Programming for .NET Developers
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Preface

F# – how to use it


Up to this point, we have been discussing the general characteristics of F# without even taking into consideration FRP. In addition, we have seen some of the theoretical aspects of the language. They detailed the general nature of the programming that is functional through simple examples.

Through this section, we will show how you can leverage the features of F#: both syntactic and technical. We will precisely discuss this in the various sections of some constructors required to exploit the full potential of the language. In this way, it will be easier to introduce and above all understand FRP, which will be addressed later.

In detail, you will see the following:

  • Pattern Matching and pipeline for very concise code and functions

  • Record type and Discriminate Union to represent and query simple types in F#

  • Active Pattern to customize the code used in Pattern Matching

Pattern Matching and pipe forward

Pattern Matching is a very important model for comparison. In particular, through...