Chapter 6Reactive Web Applications with Cycle.js
With the advent of single-page apps, websites are suddenly expected to do much more, even compete against (gasp!) “native” apps. While trying to make web applications faster, developers realized that particular areas were bottlenecks keeping web applications from being as fast and robust as their native counterparts.
Spearheaded by Facebook React,[20] several web frameworks are coming up with new techniques to make faster web applications while keeping the code simple and declarative.
In this chapter we’ll cover some new techniques to develop web applications that are here to stay, like the Virtual DOM. We’ll be using Cycle.js, a modern, simple, and beautiful framework that uses RxJS internally ...
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