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Mastering PHP 7

You're reading from   Mastering PHP 7 Design, configure, build, and test professional web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882814
Length 536 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Branko Ajzele Branko Ajzele
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The All New PHP FREE CHAPTER 2. Embracing Standards 3. Error Handling and Logging 4. Magic Behind Magic Methods 5. The Realm of CLI 6. Prominent OOP Features 7. Optimizing for High Performance 8. Going Serverless 9. Reactive Programming 10. Common Design Patterns 11. Building Services 12. Working with Databases 13. Resolving Dependencies 14. Working with Packages 15. Testing the Important Bits 16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling 17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

Using React


React is a library that makes it possible to event-driven programming in PHP, much like JavaScript does. Based on the reactor pattern, it essentially acts as an event loop, allowing various other third-party libraries using its components to write asynchronous code.

The page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor_pattern states, The reactor design pattern is an event handling pattern for handling service requests delivered concurrently to a service handler by one or more inputs. 

The library is available at https://github.com/reactphp/react

Installing React

The React library is available as a Composer react/react package. Assuming we are still in our project directory where we installed RxPHP, we can simply execute the following command in order to add React to our project:

composer require react/react

This should give us an output similar to the following one:

We can see quite a few interesting react/* packages being pulled in, react/event-loop being one of them. The messages suggesting...

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