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Fernando Doglio, Reactive Programming with Node.js , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2152-5_6

6. Overview of the Land

Fernando Doglio

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So far, in this book I’ve covered what reactive programming (RP) is, how useful it can be on the back end, and, finally, how Node.js is such a great match for it. I even went ahead and showed some code alternatives on how to accomplish a reactive back end.

In this chapter, before I go deep into the creation of this book’s reactive library, I want to go over the current libraries out there. Some of them are not really meant for Node.js, and some of them are, but the important thing here is that it’s all JavaScript and you might end up learning from them, even though ...

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