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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

By : Rivu Chakraborty
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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

By: Rivu Chakraborty

Overview of this book

In today's app-driven era, when programs are asynchronous, and responsiveness is so vital, reactive programming can help you write code that's more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. Reactive programming is revolutionary. With this practical book, Kotlin developers will first learn how to view problems in the reactive way, and then build programs that leverage the best features of this exciting new programming paradigm. You will begin with the general concepts of Reactive programming and then gradually move on to working with asynchronous data streams. You will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and provider and how to use the concurrency model to control asynchronicity of code and process event handlers effectively. You will then be introduced to functional reactive programming and will learn to apply FRP in practical use cases in Kotlin. This book will also take you one step forward by introducing you to Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2 using Kotlin. By the end of the book, you will be able to build real-world applications with reactive user interfaces as well as you'll learn to implement reactive programming paradigms in Android.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Introduction to Spring Boot


So, we are now familiar with Spring, especially with Spring DI and AOP. Spring Boot makes a developer's life easier. So far, we've seen how to perform various operations just by using POJO classes and Spring configurations. What would be your reaction if I tell you that we can even minimize this configuration? Will you be shocked? Then brace yourself, because it's true. With Spring Boot, you can get your code ready with minimal configuration and in just a few steps.

So, what is Spring Boot? It is a Spring module that provides RAD (Rapid application development) features to the Spring Framework. It is designed to simplify the bootstrapping and development of new Spring applications. The framework takes an opinionated approach to configuration, freeing developers from the requirement to define boilerplate configurations, further reducing your development time.

So, let's get started. If you are using the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate edition, you can follow these steps to...