The concepts behind Reactive Extensions are universal in the world of computing; they are not specific to C# or .NET. To prove this, the Rx team at Microsoft ported the Reactive Extensions to JavaScript, and by doing so, brought the same powerful thinking about concurrency to the browser.
In this chapter, we will see how to take what you've already learned and apply it to HTML5 and JavaScript. We'll also see how we can integrate Rx with the popular jQuery library, and we'll learn how to take existing DOM APIs and events and integrate them with Rx. Using RxJS, we can replace complicated “spaghetti” code, consisting of many small callbacks and global state variables, with clean and succinct code ...
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