Chapter 8: Multicasting Essentials

Multicasting is one of the concepts that often confuses people at the first point when learning RxJS. But this concept is really useful and solves many problems in web applications.

In this chapter, I will demystify this concept for you and make it simple. We will start by explaining the difference between Multicasting and Unicasting, and then we will explore RxJS Subjects.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Explaining Multicasting versus Unicasting
  • Exploring Subjects
  • Highlighting the advantages of Multicasting

Technical requirements

This chapter assumes that you have a basic understanding of RxJS.

All the source code in this chapter is used for demonstration purposes as samples. ...

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