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Mastering Reactive JavaScript

You're reading from   Mastering Reactive JavaScript Building asynchronous and high performing web apps with RxJS

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463388
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Erich de Souza Oliveira Erich de Souza Oliveira
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Preface 1. What Does Being Reactive Mean? FREE CHAPTER 2. Reacting for the First Time 3. A World Full of Changes - Reactive Extensions to the Rescue 4. Transforming Data - Map, Filter, and Reduce 5. The World Changes Too Fast - Operators to Deal with Backpressure 6. Too Many Sources - Combining Observables 7. Something is Wrong - Testing and Dealing with Errors 8. More about Operators 9. Composition 10. A Real-Time Server 11. A Real-Time Client

Installing dependencies

To implement the client application for our web chat application, we will try to keep the dependencies to the minimum required; we are doing so to encourage you to avoid abusing the use of the library on your application and also to show how powerful a well structured application using RxJS for functional reactive programming can be.

To keep the code simple and avoid adding too many configurations, we are going to use browserify to bundle our client.

The browserify is a bundler that lets us use commonJS when implementing client-side applications. This means we can import data from different files/modules using require in the same way you do on Node.js applications.

To use browserify we must install it as a dependency in our application; to do this, we must run the following command on the folder of our application:

    npm i browserify@14.1.0 --save-dev

With browserify, we can already bundle...

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