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Dynamics of Change Why Reactivity matters @andrestaltz

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Reactive?


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Product Cart Invoice Coupon Payment User profile Sale Vendor

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Cart Invoice

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Cart Invoice When a new 
 product is added... ...update the total
 amount charged.

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Cart Invoice

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Cart Invoice

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fun addProduct(product: Product) {
 // ...
 Invoice.updateInvoicing(product)
 } Cart Invoice

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package my.project import my.project.Invoice public object Cart { fun addProduct(product: Product) { // ... Invoice.updateInvoicing(product) } }

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fun addProduct(product: Product) {
 // ...
 Invoice.updateInvoicing(product)
 } Cart Invoice Proactive
 Responsible for the change Passive
 Unaware of the dependency

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fun addProduct(product: Product) {
 // ...
 Invoice.updateInvoicing(product)
 } Cart Invoice incrementCounter must be public

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Cart Invoice Passive Programming

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Cart Invoice Cart.onProductAdded { product -> this.updateInvoicing(product) }

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun updateInvoicing(product: Product) { // ... } fun setup() { Cart.onProductAdded { product -> this.updateInvoicing(product) } } }

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Cart.onProductAdded { product -> this.updateInvoicing(product) } Listenable
 Unaware of the dependency Reactive
 Responsible 
 for the change Cart Invoice

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add Product event must be public Cart Invoice Cart.onProductAdded { product -> this.updateInvoicing(product) }

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Cart Invoice Reactive Programming

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Cart Invoice Passive Programming Cart Invoice Reactive Programming Remote setters and updates Events, observation, and self-updates

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"Product added" event 
 in the Cart Update invoice method 
 in the Invoice Passive public Reactive public

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Product Cart Invoice Coupon Payment User profile Sale Vendor

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How does it work? What does it affect?

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale What does it affect?

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale What does it affect? Look inside

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale How does it work?

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale How does it work? Find usages of its methods

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale What does it affect?

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale What does it affect? Find usages of its events

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale How does it work?

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Cart Invoice Coupon Payment Sale How does it work? Look inside

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Passive Reactive How does it work? Find usages Look inside What does it affect? Look inside Find usages

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Passive Reactive How does it work? Find usages Look inside What does it affect? Look inside Find usages

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Cart Invoice Irresponsible
 modules
 Passive everywhere

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Example How do you set up analytics events?

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Analytics LoginPage ProfilePage FrontPage Analytics.sendEvent()

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Analytics LoginPage ProfilePage FrontPage

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Analytics LoginPage ProfilePage FrontPage Cross-cutting concern? Aspect-oriented programming!

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package my.project public object LoginPage { fun init() { // ... } }

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pointcut opened(): call(void LoginPage.init()) after(): opened() { Analytics.sendEvent("Just opened LoginPage"); } "Pointcut" "Advice" package my.project public object LoginPage { fun init() { // ... } }

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pointcut opened(): call(void LoginPage.init()) after(): opened() { Analytics.sendEvent("Just opened LoginPage"); } "Pointcut" "Advice" package my.project public object LoginPage { fun init() { // ... } } After the execution of the program hits "opened", run that "advice" snippet

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package my.project public object LoginPage { fun init() { // ... this.broadcastEvent("opened") } fun addListener(event: String, listener: () -> Unit) { // ... } } Reactive, with events

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package my.project.utils import my.project.LoginPage public object Analytics { fun sendEvent(msg: String) { // ... } fun setup() { LoginPage.addListener("opened", { () -> this.sendEvent("Just opened LoginPage") }) } } Reactive, with events

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Problem Still using passive programming

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun updateInvoicing(product: Product) { // ... } fun setup() { Cart.onProductAdded { product -> this.updateInvoicing(product) } } }

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun updateInvoicing(product: Product) { // ... } fun setup() { Cart.onProductAdded { product -> this.updateInvoicing(product) } } }

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Cart Invoice

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Cart Invoice Setup Update

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No setter or update methods?

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Cart Book Book Shoes

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Cart Book Book Shoes Invoice €23,50 €72,40 =SUM(Cart.Products)

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Cart Book Book Shoes Book Shoes Watch Invoice €23,50 €72,40 €346,90 =SUM(Cart.Products)

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Cart Book Shoes Watch Invoice €23,50 €72,40 €346,90 =SUM(Cart.Products)

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Cart Book Shoes Watch Invoice €23,50 €72,40 €346,90 =SUM(Cart.Products) Delayed =DELAY(Invoice, 1000ms) €23,50 €72,40 €346,90

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Cart Book Shoes Watch Invoice €23,50 €72,40 €346,90 =SUM(Cart.Products) Delayed =DELAY(Invoice, 1000ms) €23,50 €72,40 €346,90 Functional and Reactive Programming RxJava RxJS ReactiveCocoa

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€23,50 €72,40 €346,90 A stream of values over time

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€23,50 €72,40 €346,90 A stream of values over time "A magical spreadsheet cell"

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun updateInvoicing(product: Product) { // ... } fun setup() { Cart.onProductAdded { product -> this.updateInvoicing(product) } } }

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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Problem Singletons everywhere


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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } } Singleton Singleton

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Passive everywhere => irresponsible modules Reactive everywhere => Singletons everywhere

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Passive is good for: Data structures Dependency injection

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Dependencies What? versus How?

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } } "What"

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } } "How"

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } } Bad

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Cart Invoice Passive
 Unaware of the dependency

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Reactive
 Responsible 
 for the change Cart Invoice

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How does it work? Reactive: look inside What does it depend on? Passive: unaware of the
 dependency Passively Reactive: 
 the best of two worlds

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package my.project import my.project.Cart public object Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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package my.project public object Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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package my.project public Invoice { fun getInvoice(): Observable { val invoice = Cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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package my.project public Invoice { public var cart: Cart? = null fun getInvoice(): Observable? { val invoice = this.cart?.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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package my.project public Invoice { public var cart: Cart? = null fun getInvoice(): Observable? { val invoice = this.cart?.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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package my.project public Invoice { public var cart: Cart? = null fun getInvoice(): Observable? { val invoice = this.cart?.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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package my.project public Invoice { fun getInvoice(cart: Cart): Observable { val invoice = cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } return invoice } }

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package my.project fun invoice(cart: Cart): Observable { return cart.productAddedObservable .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } }

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package my.project fun invoice(p: Observable): Observable { return p .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } }

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package my.project fun invoice(p: Observable): Observable { return p .fold(0) { total, product -> total + product.price } }

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Input is a stream Function Output is a stream

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Input is a stream Function Output is a stream The dependency of the output 
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Input is a stream Function Output is a stream We can make this a pure function

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 stream Function stream
 Observer Side effect
 (e.g. Analytics.sendEvent)

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stream Function stream
 Observer Write 
 Click stream Read

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stream Function Write Read stream Function stream stream Function stream

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stream Function Write Read stream Function stream stream Function stream Pure logic Effects

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Cycle.js.org A functional and reactive JavaScript framework 
 for cleaner code

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import xs from 'xstream' import Cycle from '@cycle/xstream-run' import {div, button, p, makeDOMDriver} from '@cycle/dom' function main(sources) { let dec$ = sources.DOM.select('.dec').events('click').mapTo(-1); let inc$ = sources.DOM.select('.inc').events('click').mapTo(+1); let action$ = xs.merge(inc$, dec$); let count$ = action$.fold((x,y) => x + y, 0); let vdom$ = count$.map(count => div([ button('.dec', 'Decrement'), button('.inc', 'Increment'), p(`Counter: ${count}`) ]) ); let sinks = { DOM: vdom$ }; return sinks; } Cycle.run(main, { DOM: makeDOMDriver('#main-container') });

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import xs from 'xstream' import Cycle from '@cycle/xstream-run' import {div, button, p, makeDOMDriver} from '@cycle/dom' function main(sources) { let dec$ = sources.DOM.select('.dec').events('click').mapTo(-1); let inc$ = sources.DOM.select('.inc').events('click').mapTo(+1); let action$ = xs.merge(inc$, dec$); let count$ = action$.fold((x,y) => x + y, 0); let vdom$ = count$.map(count => div([ button('.dec', 'Decrement'), button('.inc', 'Increment'), p(`Counter: ${count}`) ]) ); let sinks = { DOM: vdom$ }; return sinks } Cycle.run(main, { DOM: makeDOMDriver('#main-container') })

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import xs from 'xstream' import Cycle from '@cycle/xstream-run' import {div, button, p, makeDOMDriver} from '@cycle/dom' function main(sources) { let dec$ = sources.DOM.select('.dec').events('click').mapTo(-1) let inc$ = sources.DOM.select('.inc').events('click').mapTo(+1) let action$ = xs.merge(inc$, dec$); let count$ = action$.fold((x,y) => x + y, 0); let vdom$ = count$.map(count => div([ button('.dec', 'Decrement'), button('.inc', 'Increment'), p(`Counter: ${count}`) ]) ); let sinks = { DOM: vdom$ }; return sinks } Cycle.run(main, { DOM: makeDOMDriver('#main-container') })

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import xs from 'xstream' import Cycle from '@cycle/xstream-run' import {div, button, p, makeDOMDriver} from '@cycle/dom' function main(sources) { let dec$ = sources.DOM.select('.dec').events('click').mapTo(-1) let inc$ = sources.DOM.select('.inc').events('click').mapTo(+1) let action$ = xs.merge(inc$, dec$) let count$ = action$.fold((x,y) => x + y, 0) let vdom$ = count$.map(count => div([ button('.dec', 'Decrement'), button('.inc', 'Increment'), p(`Counter: ${count}`) ]) ); let sinks = { DOM: vdom$ }; return sinks } Cycle.run(main, { DOM: makeDOMDriver('#main-container') })

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import xs from 'xstream' import Cycle from '@cycle/xstream-run' import {div, button, p, makeDOMDriver} from '@cycle/dom' function main(sources) { let dec$ = sources.DOM.select('.dec').events('click').mapTo(-1) let inc$ = sources.DOM.select('.inc').events('click').mapTo(+1) let action$ = xs.merge(inc$, dec$) let count$ = action$.fold((x,y) => x + y, 0) let vdom$ = count$.map(count => div([ button('.dec', 'Decrement'), button('.inc', 'Increment'), p(`Counter: ${count}`) ]) ); let sinks = { DOM: vdom$ } return sinks } Cycle.run(main, { DOM: makeDOMDriver('#main-container') })

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stream Function Write Read stream Function stream stream Function stream Stream I/O in Haskell 1.0 Dataflow languages Visual programming

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Cart Invoice Passive Programming Cart Invoice Reactive Programming Remote setters and updates Events, observation, and self-updates

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Passive Reactive How does it work? Find usages Look inside What does it affect? Look inside Find usages

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stream Function Write Read stream Function stream stream Function stream Functional programming Moving effects to the edges of the system

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Thank you 
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