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Mastering Reactive JavaScript

By : Erich de Souza Oliveira
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Mastering Reactive JavaScript

By: Erich de Souza Oliveira

Overview of this book

If you’re struggling to handle a large amount of data and don’t know how to improve your code readability, then reactive programming is the right solution for you. It lets you describe how your code behaves when changes happen and makes it easier to deal with real-time data. This book will teach you what reactive programming is, and how you can use it to write better applications. The book starts with the basics of reactive programming, what Reactive Extensions is, and how can you use it in JavaScript along with some reactive code using Bacon. Next, you’ll discover what an Observable and an Observer are and when to use them.You'll also find out how you can query data through operators, and how to use schedulers to react to changes. Moving on, you’ll explore the RxJs API, be introduced to the problem of data traffic (backpressure), and see how you can mitigate it. You’ll also learn about other important operators that can help improve your code readability, and you’ll see how to use transducers to compose operators. At the end of the book, you’ll get hands-on experience of using RxJs, and will create a real-time web chat using RxJs on the client and server, providing you with the complete package to master RxJs.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

RxJS Schedulers


Schedulers are used to determine where a task is going to be executed (current thread, thread pool, and so on).

You can use them to run any type of task that you want, but RxJS Observables use schedulers to propagate data. For this reason, you can optionally define a Scheduler when creating a new Observable.

As you might expect, having control of which execution context you task should run in (or your Observable should process elements in) is specially useful when you are running in a multithread environment.

Note

As RxJS runs in a single-thread environment, other than the default settings, you should be really cautious when using a scheduler to propagate data from an Observable. Incorrect use can block your thread.