Chapter 7. Not Reinventing the Wheel – Tools for Functional Reactive Programming
In this chapter, we will look at a few out of the many good tools for building on top of "bare-metal" JavaScript, as discussed briefly in the last chapter. JavaScript is not interesting only for its properties as a core language; browser JavaScript is home to an ecosystem, or perhaps multiple ecosystems. Regarding tools for functional reactive programming, the total set of offerings represents a good, healthy, and sprawling bazaar, next to which the direct use of JavaScript alone for all web development looks more like a cathedral. We will be taking a small sample of this bazaar, with the understanding that this chapter does not intend to cover all that is good, interesting, ...
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