In JavaScript, we have a lot of APIs that use callbacks to let you control the flow of the application. We can use functional reactive programming to have better control of it. We can use observables to wrap callbacks (following the Node.js callback pattern). This way, we can reuse and compose these callbacks.
To do so, we can use the fromCallback() method. It has the following signature:
Rx.Observable.fromCallback(func,[context],[selector]);
The first argument is mandatory and the next two are optional. They are as follows:
- func: This is the function that usually receives a callback when it finishes
- context: This is the context to be used in the callback
- selector: This is a function that takes the ...
