Reactive Programming in JavaScript

Slides and dojo for a presentation at FunctionalJS London on 28 April 2014.

Enter the dojo.

References

Selection of sources

• What is (functional) reactive programming?
• Principles of Reactive Programming (Coursera course)
• The Reactive Manifesto
• Elm’s Time Traveling Debugger
• Plumber (reactive asset build pipelines)

Promises

• You're Missing the Point of Promises
• Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional: Node’s biggest missed opportunity

Papers

• Functional Reactive Animation (1997)
• Deprecating the Observer Pattern (2010)
• Why should the observer pattern be deprecated?