Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns - Second Edition

Summary

Functional reactive programming has many uses in different applications both on the server and on the client. On the client side it can be used to wrangle a large number of events together into a data flow enabling complex interactions. It can also be used for the simplest of things such as preventing a user from double-clicking a button. There is no huge cost to simply using streams for all of your data changes. They are highly testable and have a minimal impact on performance.

Perhaps the nicest thing about FRP is that it raises the level of abstraction. You have to deal with less finicky process flow code and can, instead, focus on the logical flow of the application.