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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)

Summary


In this chapter, you learned the basics of functional reactive programming using RxJS, and it became clear that it is a more extensive framework.

We started to use different objects such as Observables, Observers, Subjects, Disposables, and Schedulers.

Some of these concepts don't even exist in the bacon.js world, and they give us more power over our code.

With Subjects, you learned how to create an Observable using a push style.

With Disposable, you gained more control over the life cycle of your code, as it lets you tear down your resources gracefully.

With Schedulers, you learned that if you want, you can control in which context your code will be executed, giving you more power over how Observables would propagate data. You also learned the importance of avoiding schedulers, other than the default ones, when using RxJS.

In the next chapter, we will use our first operators to transform data, as we did in the previous chapter using bacon.js. Once again, we will see how it can lead to...