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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 C++ language and web programming


Nowadays, most web-centric applications are developed using Python, Java, C#, PHP, and other high-level languages. But, for these applications, people place reverse proxies, such as NGINX, Apache Web server, or IIS redirector, to manage the traffic . All of these reverse proxies are written in C++. Likewise, most of the web browsers and HTTP client libraries, such as libwww, libcurl, and WinInet, are written using C++.

One reason why Java, (statically-typed) C#, and other dynamic languages (such as Python, Ruby, and PHP) became popular is the fact that these languages support reflective capabilities (in the case of static languages, such as C#/Java) and duck typing (supported by dynamic languages). These features help web application servers to load  web page handlers dynamically. Read about them by searching for keywords such as Reflection API and Duck Typing.

The REST programming model

The REST, which stands for  REpresentational State Transfer, is an...