182 JSJ RxJS with Matthew Podwysocki

02:19 - Matthew Podwysocki Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Microsoft

04:01 - RxJS

• Reactive JavaScript Interview w/ Jeffrey Van Gogh & Matthew Podwysocki @ JSConf 2010
• “First-class Events”

10:18 - Practical Experience of Use

• Observables

17:28 - observable-spec

21:43 - Observables and Promises

25:06 - Using RxJS in Common Frameworks

• RxJS Git Book
• RxJS Gitter Channel

27:53 - Are there places where observables might not be better than callbacks/Promises?

29:16 - Why would someone use RxJS on the backend in place of Node streams?

• RabbitMQ

32:28 - Are Promises dying?

36:13 - Observable Gotchas

• Hot vs Cold Observables

40:29 - Influence

• Elm
• Functional Reactive Programming (FRP)

47:47 - Will observables in ES2016 replace RxJS?

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