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TypeScript Microservices

You're reading from  TypeScript Microservices

Product type Book
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830751
Pages 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Debunking Microservices 2. Gearing up for the Journey 3. Exploring Reactive Programming 4. Beginning Your Microservice Journey 5. Understanding API Gateway 6. Service Registry and Discovery 7. Service State and Interservice Communication 8. Testing, Debugging, and Documenting 9. Deployment, Logging, and Monitoring 10. Hardening Your Application 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Being reactive in Node.js


Now that we have gone through the concepts of reactive programming and advantages of reactive programming in microservices, let's now look at some practical implementations of reactive programming in Node.js. In this section, we will understand the building blocks of reactive programming by seeing implementations of reactive programming in Node.js.

Rx.js

This is one of the most trending libraries and it is actively maintained. This library is available for most programming languages in different forms such as RxJava, RxJS, Rx.Net, RxScala, RxClojure, and so on. At the time of writing, it had more than 40 lakh downloads in the last month. Besides this, a huge amount of documentation and online support is available for this. We will be using this library most of the time, except when the need arises. You can check this out at: http://reactivex.io/. At the time of writing, the stable version of Rx.js was 5.5.6. Rx.js has lots of operators. We can use the Rx.js operators...

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