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Reactive Programming with RxJS
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Reactive Programming with RxJS

by Sergi Mansilla
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
3h 37m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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New World, Old Methods

In recent years JavaScript has become the most ubiquitous language in the world and now powers the mission-critical infrastructure of businesses such as Walmart and Netflix,[1] mobile operating systems such as Firefox OS, and complex popular applications such as Google Docs.

And yet we’re still using good ol‘ imperative-style programming to deal with problems that are essentially asynchronous. This is very hard.

JavaScript developers see the language’s lack of threads as a feature, and we usually write asynchronous code using callbacks, promises, and events. But as we keep adding more concurrency to our applications, the code to coordinate asynchronous flows becomes unwieldy. Current mechanisms all have serious shortcomings ...

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