July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 26m
English
Overview
Functional Reactive Programming teaches the concepts and applications of FRP. It offers a careful walk-through of core FRP operations and introduces the concepts and techniques you'll need to use FRP in any language.
About the Technology
Today's software is shifting to more asynchronous, event-based solutions. For decades, the Observer pattern has been the go-to event infrastructure, but it is known to be bug-prone. Functional reactive programming (FRP) replaces Observer, radically improving the quality of event-based code.
About the Book
Functional Reactive Programming teaches you how FRP works and how to use it. You'll begin by gaining an understanding of what FRP is and why it's so powerful. Then, you'll work through greenfield and legacy code as you learn to apply FRP to practical use cases. You'll find examples in this book from many application domains using both Java and JavaScript. When you're finished, you'll be able to use the FRP approach in the systems you build and spend less time fixing problems.
What's Inside
- Think differently about data and events
- FRP techniques for Java and JavaScript
- Eliminate Observer one listener at a time
- Explore Sodium, RxJS, and Kefir.js FRP systems
About the Reader
Readers need intermediate Java or JavaScript skills. No experience with functional programming or FRP required.
About the Authors
Stephen Blackheath and Anthony Jones are experienced software developers and the creators of the Sodium FRP library for multiple languages.
Illustrated by Duncan Hill.
Quotes
A gentle introduction to the necessary concepts of FRP.
- From the Foreword by Heinrich Apfelmus, author of the Reactive-banana FRP library
Highly topical and brilliantly written, with great examples.
- Ron Cranston, Sky UK
A comprehensive reference and tutorial, covering both theory and practice.
- Jean-François Morin, Laval University
Your guide to using the merger of functional and reactive programming paradigms to create modern software applications.
- William E. Wheeler, West Corporation
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