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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)

Testing transducers


When using transducers you can decouple the logic to transform your data from the source of your data; this way you can create tests for each one of your transducers without having to add an observable.

To test transducers we will use the exact same tools we used to test observables so far; the difference is that we can test the logic of the transducers using any iterable source of data such as an array or an observable.

Since observables are asynchronous data structure by nature, every time we want to test an observable, or to test the transformations applied to an observable, we need to create asynchronous tests. As transducers work independently of the current source of data we can use arrays to its behavior; using arrays we can create synchronous tests, which usually make them faster and easier to write and read.

Let's see how we can use an observable to test a transducer. To do so, let's first create a transducer to map a number to it plus 1 and then filter to keep...