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Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx

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Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx

Overview of this book

Managing the state of large-scale web applications is a highly challenging task with the need to align different components, backends, and web workers harmoniously. When it comes to Angular, you can use NgRx, which combines the simplicity of Redux with the reactive programming power of RxJS to build your application architecture, making your code elegant and easy to reason about, debug, and test. In this book, we start by looking at the different ways of architecting Angular applications and some of the patterns that are involved in it. This will be followed by a discussion on one-way data flow, the Flux pattern, and the origin of Redux. The book introduces you to declarative programming or, more precisely, functional programming and talks about its advantages. We then move on to the reactive programming paradigm. Reactive programming is a concept heavily used in Angular and is at the core of NgRx. Later, we look at RxJS, as a library and master it. We thoroughly describe how Redux works and how to implement it from scratch. The two last chapters of the book cover everything NgRx has to offer in terms of core functionality and supporting libraries, including how to build a micro implementation of NgRx. This book will empower you to not only use Redux and NgRx to the fullest, but also feel confident in building your own version, should you need it.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

We started off by talking about the patterns that make up RxJS. We continued by describing its core concepts. This was followed by describing how and when it was necessary to create your own Observable, opt for one of RxJS many creation operators, or rely on the Angular framework to do this job for you. We briefly discussed the importance of cleaning up after your Observable and when it was a good idea to do so.

Lastly, we took on the task of implementing part of the RxJS core to gain a deeper understanding of its core concepts and how it all came together. This has hopefully given you a pretty solid foundation and in-depth understanding of RxJS as we venture into the next chapter, which will cover more operators, and some more advanced concepts.