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Clojure Reactive Programming

You're reading from   Clojure Reactive Programming Design and implement highly reusable reactive applications by integrating different frameworks with Clojure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783986668
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Leonardo Borges Leonardo Borges
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What is Reactive Programming? 2. A Look at Reactive Extensions FREE CHAPTER 3. Asynchronous Programming and Networking 4. Introduction to core.async 5. Creating Your Own CES Framework with core.async 6. Building a Simple ClojureScript Game with Reagi 7. The UI as a Function 8. Futures 9. A Reactive API to Amazon Web Services A. The Algebra of Library Design B. Bibliography
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Chapter 2. A Look at Reactive Extensions

Reactive Extensions—or Rx—is a Reactive Programming library from Microsoft to build complex asynchronous programs. It models time-varying values and events as observable sequences and is implemented by extending the Observer design pattern.

Its first target platform was .NET, but Netflix has ported Rx to the JVM under the name RxJava. Microsoft also develops and maintains a port of Rx to JavaScript called RxJS, which is the tool we used to build the sine-wave application. The two ports work a treat for us since Clojure runs on the JVM and ClojureScript in JavaScript environments.

As we saw in Chapter 1, What is Reactive Programming?, Rx is inspired by Functional Reactive Programming but uses different terminology. In FRP, the two main abstractions are behaviors and events. Although the implementation details are different, observable sequences represent events. Rx also provides a behavior-like abstraction through another data...

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Clojure Reactive Programming
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