With the book so far, you’ve read every bit of theory about functional reactive programming (FRP) I’ve thrown at you. You also have a working implementation of an FRP library to play with, so you might be wondering: What else is there?
Well, in this chapter I’m going to go over some examples of real-world companies going the reactive way, and I’ll try to analyze their reasons and their results. Note that even though these companies will not be using Node.js specifically for this purpose, the reactive paradigm still applies and you’ll be able to extrapolate the situation ...