© Luca Mezzalira 2018
Luca MezzaliraFront-End Reactive Architectureshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3180-7_1

1. What Is Reactive Programming?

Luca Mezzalira1 
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London, Surrey, UK
 

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Chang

Have you ever heard about Reactive Programming or Reactive Systems? Do you think React.js is a reactive library? Have you ever thought about why you should use Rx.JS inside an Angular project? Is Rx.JS the new Loadash?

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