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Learning RxJava - Second Edition
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Learning RxJava - Second Edition

by Nick Samoylov, Thomas Nield
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
9h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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When to use RxJava

A common question ReactiveX newcomers ask is: What circumstances warrant a reactive approach? Do we always want to use RxJava? As someone who has been living and breathing reactive programming for a while, I have learned that there are two answers to this question.

The first answer, when you first start out, is yes! You always want to take a reactive approach. The only way to truly become a master of reactive programming is to build reactive applications from the ground up. Think of everything as Observable and always model your program in terms of data and event flows. When you do this, you will leverage everything reactive programming has to offer and see the quality of your applications go up significantly.

The second ...

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