The magic of

RxJS

Natalia Tepluhina

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Senior Frontend Engineer

Core Team Member

Google Dev Expert

Why RxJS?

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Concurrency!

What is RxJS?

It's a Reactive extensions library

for JavaScript

ReactiveX is an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams

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Think in streams!

Streams are collection of events

And you can think of RxJS as Lodash for events

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Observables

  Singular   Plural
  Sync   Value   Iterable <Value>
  Async   Promise <Value>   

Observable <Value>

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Promise

Observable

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Observable is just a function

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Observer

const myObserver = {
  next: (value) => { console.log(value); },
  error: (err) => { console.error(err); },
  complete: () => { console.log('Complete!'); }
};
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const myObservable = new Observable(observer => {
    const datasource = new DataSource();
    datasource.ondata = (e) => observer.next(e);
    datasource.onerror = (err) => observer.error(err);
    datasource.oncomplete = () => observer.complete();
    return () => {
        datasource.destroy();
    };
});

Creating Observable

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Observables are lazy!

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Subscription

const subscription = 
    myObservable.subscribe(myObserver);
 subscription.unsubscribe();
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RxJS Operators

  • transform

  • filter

  • combine

  • alter

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 Complex user input?

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GAMES

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bit.ly/rx-piano by Shule Hsiung

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Demo Time

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Breakout repo

bit.ly/rx-breakout

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Thank you!

The Magic of RxJS

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