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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

Summary


In this chapter, we covered how the Rx programming model can be used to write reactive microservices using C++. As part of the process, we introduced you to the Microsoft C++ REST SDK and its programming model. The C++ REST SDK follows an asynchronous programming model based on a technique called task continuation style, while writing client-side code. To write REST clients, we leveraged Kirk Shoop's RxCurl library, with some modifications to support the PUT and DELETE verbs. Finally, we wrote a REST server and consumed it in a reactive manner.In the next chapter, we will learn how to handle errors and exceptions using constructs available in the RxCpp library.