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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

The OOP and Design patterns movement


The Object Oriented Programming (OOP)  reached critical mass in early 90s when the C++ programming language began to make inroads into  areas where C programming language  was the primary programming language.  After the advent of Microsoft C++ compiler in the year 1992 ,  followed by Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC)  library, the C++ programming became mainstream under Microsoft Windows. In the  POSIX world,  C++ GUI toolkits like WxWidgets, and Qt,signaled the arrival of OOP.   The early pioneers of the  OOP movement wrote articles in various magazines like Dr. Dobb's Journal , C++ Report  ,Microsoft Systems Journal and so on., to propagate their ideas.

Note

James Coplien published an influential book titled Advanced C++ Styles and Idioms, which dealt with the low-level patterns (idioms) associated with usage of the C++ programming language. Even though it is not widely cited, authors of this  book consider it as a  notable book for cataloging best practices...