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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 the bacon.js library. We wanted to give you the taste of functional reactive programming and also get your hands dirty with a lot of different examples.

You learned about observables and the different types of observables that bacon.js has implemented. You also learned about some of the built-in methods that help you create observables in bacon.js and also how you can create your own observable using the fromBinder() method.

Apart from this, you also learned how to subscribe and unsubscribe from an observable, how to use operators to transform an observable, and the importance of reuse in this context.

In the next chapter, we will start using RxJS as it gives us more tools for functional reactive programming. We will see how it compares with bacon.js and understand the basics of this new tool.