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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 the last part of our project using functional reactive programming; here we used a lot of the knowledge from the other parts of this book, such as using functional reactive programming in the browser, creating observables from user inputs, using several different operators, modeling messages and connections as observables, subscribing to an observable, buffering data from an observable to process it in batch, and creating simple tests for the frontend application.

We did not use all of the knowledge we learned throughout this book, because it is hard to find a sample application which uses everything, and while keeping it simple enough to use as an example inside a book.

Keep in mind that this knowledge is important and can be used in other programs in your day to day work.