Reactive Extensions

My new client has put me onto a project that will use Microsoft’s Reactive Extensions (specifically the JavaScript implementation). Here’s a list of resources I’ve used to help learn and work with it.

• The Reactive Extensions homepage
• The RxJS Github which has a useful introduction
• The RxJS documentation
• Andre Stalt’s excellent introduction to thinking reactively and the video versions
• The Marble diagrams
• a fun video by Bodil Stokke on programming games with Rx
• Jafar Husain on Rx. Jafar worked at Microsoft with Rx and then moved to Netflix and worked on the project to re-write their UI layer with FRP.

Along the way, I also looked into some other bits of kit:

• Express
• an introduction to socket.io