Chapter 1. Introduction and Installation

Welcome to the wonderful world of reactive (functional) programming in JavaScript! In this book, we will cover the good parts of JavaScript, although we will not follow it religiously. We will cover functional programming, reactive programming, and the ReactJS library and integrate all of these into functional reactive programming with JavaScript. If you are going to study reactive programming, it is our suggestion that you seriously consider functional reactive programming, including learning functional programming as much you can. In this context, the whole of functional reactive programming is more than the sum of its parts. We will be applying reactive programming to JavaScript user interface development. ...

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