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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
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we further deepened the main concepts of FRP.

In the first part, we presented the main differences between the discrete and continuous components, showing both theoretical analysis and examples of code. Afterward, we discussed the time flow and the asynchronous data flow. Then, we introduced Computation Expressions and also the concept of Monad.

In the second and last half of the chapter, we discussed the flow of choices, Railway-oriented Programming, and finally, the module Observable.

On reaching this point, we acquired all theoretical basic information to apply Reactive Programming and Functional Reactive Programming.

It is fundamental to understand how much these two paradigms are continuously intertwined. In fact, talking about Linq and Rx is almost the same as FRP and vice versa.

On the Web, there are not many concrete examples about using FRP through F# language. However, with little practice and knowledge of functional language Haskell, on the site Microsoft Academic...