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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

The fundamentals of RxJS

In Chapter 3, A World Full of Change - Reactive Extentions to the Rescue, we learned about observables and observers; these two objects are the most important part of functional reactive programming. Observables are objects with the capacity to listen to events occurring in an environment and they notify other objects of these events; the objects being notified are called observers and they have the capacity to react to the events propagated by an observable. They can listen for up to three events:

  • onNext(): Triggers when new data is propagated by an observable to this observer
  • onError(): Triggers when an error is propagated by an observable to this observer
  • onCompleted(): Triggers when the observable finishes without any error

RxJS gives us the opportunity to create observables from different sources of data using some built-in functions, but it also lets you create custom observables...

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