I’ve been hearing about RxJS for a little more than 2 years in meetups and conferences, but never took the time to test it in a project (lots of other things came before on my list 😉 ).
At the end of last month, I decided to try it after watching the CycleJS Courses by André Staltz. Even if you’re more into React/Redux (like I am), I recommend it.
Before starting, I created a boilerplate for Webpack / Babel projects, gathering configurations, development & build workflow, good practices I used to setup each time I was creating one of my projects using Webpack. That way, everything would be in one place (and could be shared).
One thing RxJS is very good at is managing events (and multiple events) that have intermediate states (such as drag’n drop). So you will find the following features on topheman/rxjs-experiments (at least for the moment):
I could have coded those features in VanillaJS, but when you’ll take a look at the code, you’ll see how much simplier it is in RxJS.
I’m still a beginner at reactive programming. I can understand how it simplifies async event management. The number of operators is overwhelming though … It can be hard to find the right ones (or the right way) to use them – I’ve been said that at the end, you only use a handful of them – a little like when you switch from imperative to functional programming.
I’ll continue to add examples (for me to train) – if you’re an RxJS expert and find a better way to write my code, please consider to send me a PR.
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