Preface

Reactive programming is taking the software world by storm. This book combines the reactive programming philosophy with the possibilities of JavaScript, and you’ll learn how to apply reactive techniques to your own projects. We’ll focus on reactive programming to manage and combine streams of events. In fact, we’ll cover how to make entire real-world, concurrent applications just by declaring transformations on our program’s events.

Most software today deals with data that’s available only over time: websites load remote resources and respond to complex user interactions, servers are distributed across multiple physical locations, and people have mobile devices that they expect to work at all times, whether on high-speed Wi-Fi or spotty ...

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