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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the basics of functional reactive programming using RxJS, and it became clear that it is a more extensive framework.

We started to use different objects such as Observables, Observers, Subjects, Disposables, and Schedulers.

Some of these concepts don't even exist in the bacon.js world, and they give us more power over our code.

With Subjects, you learned how to create an Observable using a push style.

With Disposable, you gained more control over the life cycle of your code, as it lets you tear down your resources gracefully.

With Schedulers, you learned that if you want, you can control in which context your code will be executed, giving you more power over how Observables would propagate data. You also learned the importance of avoiding schedulers, other than the default ones, when using RxJS.

In the next chapter, we will use our first operators to transform data, as we...

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