Reactive Programming with RxJS - James Churchill

2016 UtahJS Conference
Friday, September 16, 2016

RxJS, the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript, is a set of libraries that give us powerful tools for managing concurrency in our applications. Using RxJS, we use Observables to represent asynchronous data streams and then query those streams using one or more of the many available operators. In this talk, we'll create some simple examples to explore what Observables are and how to use them. Along the way, we'll compare and contrast Observables to the other familiar tools in our JavaScript developer's toolbox: event listeners, callbacks, and promises. We'll also look at an Angular 2 example, which favors using Observables over promises.

[PeterPorker]

Seriously, this is the best explanation I've come across. The way James laid everything out was outstanding. Thank you sir.

[tkousek]

Great presentation. No need to be so hard on yourself as you said you were wasting everyone's time a few times (you were not wasting anyone's time as all content was pertinant) :-) Great example you used.

[PhillipKerman]

I don't get how a const can be the result of an observable which changes.

[FredoCorleone]

Everyone is doing the same examples... Boring