Reactive Programming with Node.js

© Fernando Doglio  2016

Fernando Doglio, Reactive Programming with Node.js , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2152-5_4

4. Reactive Programming on the Back-end

Fernando Doglio¹ 

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Now that you know what you’re dealing with, it is finally time to start getting your hands dirty. In this chapter, I’m going to analyze how you can take the advantages that functional reactive programming (FRP) provides and apply them to the back-end.

To do that, I will go over a set of sample common use cases for back-end programmers, look at a regular implementation, and then take the FRP road and re-implement the same use case.

Since I don’t have a FRP module developed by myself nor picked from the list of available ones, I will assume I have a custom ...