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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, we created our first application using RxJS. The web chat application is a perfect fit to use functional reactive programming given its interactive nature. In this chapter we learned to model a WebSocket server as an observable for connections using RxJS. We also learned to model our DataSource as an observable of messages, in two different flavors: firstly, keeping messages only on one local server and, secondly, sending messages to other servers using Redis as a publish/subscriber broker. We also looked at the use of operators to implement some of our services.

With this application, we saw how we can create observables from different event sources, and how we can use operators to implement some of our business rules.

Another important lesson from this chapter was the implementation of tests for our system. In our tests, we learned how to create a fake data source from a simple observable, and use a different one in each test to keep them independent from each other...