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How I Make Sense of RxJS

Laurie on October 01, 2019

RxJS is short for reactive extensions library as implemented in JavaScript. It's built into Angular, and available on its own as well. What it real...
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Kevin Ard

The way I make sense of it may not be entirely accurate, but it completely works (for me lol). Going in, I was comfortable with stream processing and pub/sub from other platforms.

RxJs instantly clicked with me as "almost like embedded redis or kafka".

That thought - again, not completely accurate - lent me almost nil learning curve.

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Laurie

Interesting! I think for those familiar with Kafka that can work well. At least to understand the stream like nature of it.

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Na la

Good read! Thanks!

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Kristaps Kerpe

Thanks for the nice explanation!

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Laurie

So glad it was useful for you!

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A5h1m

Analogy was good.

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Ramsés López

Great article, thanks!

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Laurie

Glad you enjoyed it!

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eerk

Thanks, this is super helpful 😎

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Laurie

So glad!

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Mitesh Kamat

This read makes RxJS more interesting.Thanks for this !!