94: Reactive Programming in JavaScript

Gleb Bahmutov (@bahmutov) chats with the panel on Reactive Programming in JavaScript. What is Reactive Programming? Join Gleb and the panel to learn about event streams, sequences over time, and how these help developers build complex JavaScript applications.

Resources

• Gleb’s 2016 OSConf Talk on Reactive Programming - http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us/public/schedule/detail/49290
• The talk is mostly how to train anyone coming to JavaScript in different techniques, each more powerful than the previous one.
• Slides, video and all links to futher information in https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/oscon/
• I posted the list of interesting things from OSCON at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/oscon/#interesting-things-i-saw-at-oscon
• Companion code repo showing the same simple example (literally multiply numbers then print them) implemented using different styles https://github.com/bahmutov/javascript-journey - from imperative to FRP and beyond.
• The long and evolving blog post https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/journey-from-procedural-to-reactive-javascript-with-stops/ that I have been updating for the past two years.
• Feathersjs - http://feathersjs.com/
• Horizon.js from RethinkDB team - https://horizon.io/
• Most.js stream library - https://github.com/cujojs/most
• Cycle.js - pure reactive web framework - http://cycle.js.org/
• Xstream - tiny stream library targeted at Cycle.js https://github.com/staltz/xstream