The reactive development paradigm
Angular supports multiple styles of programming. The plurality of coding styles is one of the great reasons why it is approachable to programmers with varying backgrounds. Whether you come from an object-oriented programming background or you're a staunch believer of functional programming, you can build viable apps using Angular. In Chapter 3, Creating a Basic Angular App, you'll begin leveraging reactive programming concepts in building the LocalCast Weather app.
As a programmer, you are most likely used to imperative programming. Imperative programming is when you, as the programmer, write sequential code describing everything that must be done in the order that you've defined them and the state of your application depending on just the right variables to be set to function correctly. You write loops, conditionals, and call functions; you fire off events and expect them to be handled. Imperative and sequential logic is how...
