Chapter 7. Functional Reactive Programming
If you are a frontend or backend JavaScript developer who works on large and complex JavaScript applications and deals with a lot of code that responds to asynchronous data updates, user activities, and system activities, then it's perhaps the best time to explore functional reactive programming (FRP), as it's a time-saving, bug-preventing, easy-to-read, and modularized style of writing code. You don't need to know any functional programming language or be a hardcore functional language programmer; rather, you just need to know the basics of functional programming. In this chapter, we will learn how to use FRP using Bacon.js, which is an FRP library for both frontend and backend JavaScript.
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