Reactive Programming with Spring WebFlux Workshop - DevoxxUK 2017

These last few years Reactive Programming has found the hearts of a significant amount of developers. The fact that Spring 5 will incorporate the possibility of programming Reactive Systems in its core framework through the Spring Web Reactive project is a very positive development (pun intended) and shows the paradigm shift towards declarative programming.

This Hands-on Lab starts with the basics of Reactive Programming (in a nutshell) after which we’ll quickly move on to the actual hands-on part of the session. Using a number of small programming assignments we will familiarize you with all the concepts involving Reactive Programming, and the Spring 5 Web Reactive module. Then, with a real-life use case, we will finally show you why it is such a powerful paradigm. So let us introduce you to a way of building applications in a declarative way, as opposed to imperatively, resulting in more responsive and resilient applications.

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1. Let’s do this before we start git clone https://bitbucket.org/rlippolis/spring-web-reactive-workshop reactive-spring-intro -> mvn clean verify mememon-go-client -> npm install mememon-go-server -> mvn clean verify npm install -g angular-cli
2. Making the paradigm-shift to Reactive Programming with Spring 5 Web Reactive Riccardo Lippolis - JDriven Bas W. Knopper - JCore
3. Riccardo Lippolis - JDriven Bas W. Knopper - JCore Making the paradigm-shift to Reactive Programming with Spring 5 WebFlux
6. We need to build better software
7. Reactive Programming
8. Extending the observer pattern
10. Manipulating data
11. Java 8 Streams vs. Reactive Streams • A Stream is pull based • It "asks" for items to process • Iterable++ • A Reactive Stream is push based • You are notified when an element is available
12. Backpressure what if you can’t handle the data?
13. Reactor projectreactor.io
14. Reactor • Made by Pivotal! (Spring FTW \0/) • A foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM • Based on the Reactive Streams Specification (same concepts, different naming) • Latest: 3.0.7.RELEASE
15. Flux and Mono
16. Flux and Mono
17. Examples - Creating Reactive Streams • Arbitrary number of items: Flux<String> flux = Flux. just("Hello", "World!"); • Converting an existing collection: List<Integer> list = Arrays. asList(1, 3, 5); Flux<Integer> flux = Flux. fromIterable(list); • Empty stream: Flux.empty();
18. Examples - Manipulating Streams • Filtering Flux.just(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) .filter(n -> n % 2 == 0) .subscribe(System.out::println); // [2, 4] • Transforming Flux.just(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) .map(i -> i * 2) .subscribe(System.out::println); // [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
19. Reactive Spring Web == Spring WebFlux
20. Spring WebFlux Uses the familiar Spring Web MVC programming model (@Controller, etc.)... ...but with a new reactive, non-blocking engine
21. Current state of implementation • Version: 5.0.0 RC1 (Not production ready!) • Focus on REST (Server & Client) • JSON (Jackson) / XML (JAXB) • SSE streaming • Spring Data Kay M1 • Reactive support for MongoDB, Cassandra and Redis
22. Workshop part 1: Master the koans • Open the reactive-spring-intro project • Fix all the tests / koans in: src/test/java/com/jdriven/reactive/exercises
23. Workshop part 2: Mememon Go • Demo explaining Use case • Make all the tests pass by implementing the code • Make the application work :)
24. What’s next? • Support for Reactive types in other Spring projects, e.g.: • Spring Cloud • Spring Security • …? • GA Release • Current release: 5.0.0 RC1 • GA in june/july?
25. Great work everybody!