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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

Batching changes to the DOM

When developing a frontend application, one of the greatest problems for performance is the access to DOM.

Changing or adding nodes in the DOM can have a serious impact on your application's performance.

Using RxJS, we can easily mitigate this problem using buffers to aggregate changes before applying it to the DOM. In our web chat application, every time a user sends a message or you send a message, we need to add a new node in the DOM. Given the nature of our application, we do not expect to receive several messages per second (or the user will not be able to read the messages), but if you were implementing a chart with real-time data, this behavior can quickly become a bottleneck for you.

Here, in this section, we are going to do a minor change to our application so all changes in the DOM are buffered before being applied. I will show this technique as it can be used in several...

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