Build Reactive Websites with RxJS

The Goal of This Book

The list of requirements for frontend work keeps increasing. You now need to build websites that load quickly on shaky connections, render perfectly on mobile devices, and respond with lightning speed to user input. All of these tasks require dealing with a high number of events from disparate sources, be it your CRM, late-breaking news, or just a chat room. The topic of this book, observables, is a new way of thinking about managing these events, even when they may occur sometime in the future. Observables are a neat concept, but what’s important is that you can keep things straight in your head, allowing you to build bigger, faster, and less-buggy applications for your users.

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