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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)

The structure of our client


To implement our client application, we will create two folders in our project; the first is called static and it will contain the HTML page of our client and the built JavaScript file, the second will be called client and it will contain the JavaScript source code for our client application.

In the static folder, create a file called index.html, which will be the base HTML of our client, and paste the following code:

<!doctype html> 
<html> 
<head> 
    <title>Reactive chat</title> 
    <style> 
        * { margin: 0; padding: 0; box-sizing: border-box; } 
        body { font: 13px Helvetica, Arial; } 
        .message_container { background: #ddd; padding: 3px; position: fixed; bottom: 0; width: 100%; } 
        .message_container input { border: 0; padding: 10px; width: 90%; margin-right: .5%; } 
        .message_container button { width: 9%; background: #99ff99; border: none; padding: 10px; } 
        #messages { list-style...