Chapter 9. Demonstrating Functional Reactive Programming in JavaScript with a Live Example Part II – A To-do List
In this chapter, we will be walking through a to-do list. This to-do list will illustrate a slightly obscure kind of two-way data binding. ReactJS's forte is via one-way data binding, and most problems, solved in the idiomatic ReactJS fashion, will normally follow the von Neumann model with one-way data binding (it is claimed that two-way data binding is usually not needed, and articles such as AngularJS: The Bad Parts suggest that two-way binding carries a heavy price tag by default, especially as far as scaling is concerned).
If we build our to-do list in an obvious way, the checkboxes will be unresponsive. We can click on them as ...
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