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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python
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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

by Daniel Arbuckle
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
274 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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The concept of reactive programming

There are a lot of different and valid ways that I could define reactive programming. It's a matter of perspective and focus. Which of them is the best definition? We're going to cover several in this section.

Perhaps, the most fundamental definition of reactive programming, at least in terms of what we need to think about to implement a reactive programming system, is that it's a publish/subscribe model of event handling. The following diagram illustrates the basic reactive event handling:

In the traditional nomenclature of reactive programming, there are observables and observers, which encapsulate the ...

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