Reactive programming with Node.js. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fernando Doglio.
• Other Names: Doglio, Fernando
• Contents: At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Reactive 101; Defining Reactive Programming; The Origins of Reactive Programming; Dataflows 101; How Dataflows and Reactive Programming Are Related; What Is RP Good For?; Reactive vs. Observer Pattern; Types of Reactive Programming; Functional Reactive Programming; Object-Oriented Reactive Programming; Declarative Reactive Programming; Reactive Programming vs. Traditional Programming; Summary; Chapter 2: Being Reactive; But First, a Word About Marbles. Moving Away from Traditional TechniquesExample #1 -- Your Run-of-the-Mill Callback Hell; Example #2 -- Nested Asynchronous Calls; Example #3 -- Handling Throttleable Input Streams; Summary; Chapter 3: Functional Reactive Programming; An Intro to Functional Programming in JavaScript; Pure Functions; Composition; Currying Functions; The Tools of the Functional Programmer; Map; Filter; Reduce; Putting It All Together; Two Streams Instead of One; Curry the Hell Out of the Functions; Readability ++; Declarative Programming; What Every FRP Language Must Have; Observable Streams. Observer + Iterator =?Summary; Chapter 4: Reactive Programming on the Back-end; API with CRUD Endpoints; The Models; The API; The Standard Implementation; The Functional Reactive Implementation; The Router File; The New Business Logic; Listing All Users; Creating a New User; Adding a New Address; In Conclusion; Log-in Service; What Is a JSON Web Token?; Back to the Code; The Reactive Approach; In Conclusion; Summary; Chapter 5: Enter Node.js; Event Emitters and Event Streams; Event Emitters; Streams; Readable Streams; Writable Streams; Duplex and Transform Streams; Writing Your Custom Stream. Asynchronous Programming in Node.jsAsync Advanced; Parallel Flow; Serial Flow; Asynchronous I/O; Asynchronous Streams of Events; Through; Map; Split; Join; Merge; Readable; In Conclusion; Summary; Chapter 6: Overview of the Land; Reactive Extension for JavaScript: RxJS; License; Compatibility; Code Samples; Bacon.js; License; Compatibility; Code Samples; Highland.js; License; Compatibility; Code Samples; A Word about Backpressure; Accepting the Loss of Data; Debouncing the Stream; Sampling Streams; Pausing the Stream; When Losing Is Not an Option; Buffering; Buffered Pause; Controlled Streams. In ConclusionSummary; Chapter 7: Writing Your Own FRP Library; The Big Cheese; The Little Cheese; Map, Filter, and Reduce; Take and Take Some More; Splitting Your Chunks; FlatMap and the Plot Thickens; Dealing With Time; Summary; Chapter 8: A Practical Overview; The Case for Netflix; Their Motivation; The Need for Concurrency; The Results; The Case for Walmart; The Proposed Solution; The Results; One More Case; The Server; The Client; Summary; Chapter 9: Scaling Your Reactively Programmed Systems; Scaling Node.js; Scaling Inside Your Server.
• Publisher Details: United States : Apress
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.1; Computer science; Computer programming; Application software; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- General; Application software; Computer programming; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Computers -- Social Aspects -- Human-Computer Interaction; Artificial intelligence; Information technology: general issues; Artificial intelligence; Computers -- Web -- Web Programming; Web programming; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484221525; 1484221524
• Related ISBNs: 9781484221518; 1484221516
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