RxJS von Grund auf: Einführung in reaktives JavaScript

RxJS ist sehr mächtig. So mächtig, dass es Angular als zentrales Denk- und Programmiermodell für die interne Kommunikation unter Komponenten und Services auserkoren hat.

Sie fühlen sich noch nicht sicher genug, RxJS in vollem Umfang einzusetzen? Dann zeigt Ihnen Yannick in diesem Webinar wie Sie mit den notwendigen Ideen, Konzepten und Grundlagen, RxJS im Handumdrehen verstehen.

* Warum Streams?
* Asynchronität und das Observer Pattern
* Arbeiten mit RxJS
* Unsubscriben und Completen
* Lernen, sich bei RxJS selbst zu helfen

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1. RxJS von Grund auf
   Einführung in reaktives JavaScript
   Yannick Baron
   @yannick_baron
   https://www.thinktecture.com/yannick-baron
   

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2. Intro: Why Streams?
   

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3. • various forms of asynchronicity in modern web applications
   • WebSockets
   • DOM Events
   • AJAX
   Dealing with Asynchronicity
   

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4. • designed to handle asynchronicity
   • start running the moment you create it
   • will always resolve or reject
   • handles a single event/value

   → can pretty much only cover AJAX
   • not cancellable
   Promises
   

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5. • software design pattern
   • a Subject notifies a list of Observers by calling a provided method
   • Observers register and unregister with the Subject
   • useful to be notified of multiple events or actions
   The observer pattern
   

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6. • programming paradigm
   • reacting to asynchronous events

   (e.g. user input, data updates, asynchronous responses)
   • data streams and propagation of change
   Reactive programming
   

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7. • library implementing the Observer pattern
   • API to describe data streams
   • shines when handling multiple reactive events
   • lots of useful operators

   retrying, error handling, delaying, timing, filtering...
   → for more than just HTTP requests
   Rx - Reactive Extensions
   

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8. • designed to handle asynchronicity
   • will generally not run until there is a subscriber
   • handles sequence of 0..N asynchronous events over time

   → can handle multiple forms of asynchronicity
   • can be unsubscribed from (can notify producer)
   • communicate change or updates to subscribers
   • combine multiple streams and define how data flows
   • many operators to help control the flow
   Rx - On Observables and Streams
   

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9. Practical Introduction
   working with RxJS
   

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10. • Observable

    data stream or source emitting data over time
    • Observer

    function that will be called when new data is emitted
    • Subscription

    one-sided connection between Observer and Observable
    • Operators (combination, filtering, transformation, ...)

    replace your observables with a modified one
    Observable, Observer, Subscription & Operators
    

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11. new Observable(observer => {

    observer.next('Value 1');

    observer.next('Value 2');

    observer.complete();

    

    return () => {

    // observer unsubscribed

    };

    });

    

    from(['Value 1', 'Value 2']);

    

    of('Value 1');

    

    create, fromEvent, interval, ...

    creating Observables is easy!

    wrap asynchronous actions
    several (12) creation operators
    [Examples: 01]
    

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12. • three events we can react to
    • next

    receive the next value going through the stream
    • error

    react to the observable throwing - no more values will be emitted

    observers unsubscribe - observable does not complete
    • complete

    observable completes without error - no more values will be emitted

    observers unsubscribe

    next, error, complete
    [Examples: 02, 03]
    

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13. • Observable

    data stream or source emitting data over time

    is cold / unicast: start upon subscription with new execution context

    → single listener (subscriber)
    • Subject (AsyncSubject / BehaviorSubject / ReplaySubject)

    is an Observable that we can tell when to next / error / complete

    hot / multicast: run without subscription and keep execution context

    → multiple listeners (subscriber)
    Subject & Observable - Hot & Cold
    [Examples: 04, 05]
    

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14. • Subject

    emits values regularly - you can miss values
    • AsyncSubject

    only emits the last value once the subject completes
    • BehaviorSubject (stateful)

    emits default value or last emitted value upon subscription, then regularly
    • ReplaySubject

    emits the last N values upon subscription, then regularly
    Subjects
    [Examples: 05, 06, 07, 08]
    

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15. • Operators (combination, filtering, transformation, ...)

    replace your observables with a modified one
    • https://rxmarbles.com/
    Operators and marble diagrams
    Observable
    Events over time
    Operator
    Observable
    Resulting Observable
    

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16. Unsubscribing and Completion
    Always unsubscribe?
    

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17. • notifies Subject to remove Observer
    • Observable can perform cleanup logic

    e.g. cancelling an http request, unsetting timers, closing connections, ...
    • will stop Subscription from executing

    if subscription is kept alive on a destroyed Component, it will still execute

    can cause memory leaks
    • possibility to unsubscribe via operators
    • Subject completion causes the Observers to unsubscribe
    Unsubscribing
    [Examples: leak]
    

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18. • No... Well... Not directly...
    • ... if you know exactly what you are doing.
    • Always unsubscribing is the safest way to prevent leaks or side-effects

    good first step

    more comfortable with RxJS → easily identify when to unsubscribe
    • Unsubscribe cleverly. At the right moment. In the most elegant way.

    reason about it - make your app behave the way you need it to

    make use of operators

    (In Angular: async pipe unsubscribes for you!)

    Do we always have to unsubscribe?
    

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19. Getting Help
    learning to help yourself
    

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20. • https://www.learnrxjs.io/

    explains all operators with examples and more
    • https://rxmarbles.com/

    visual representation of some operators
    • https://stackblitz.com/

    quickly construct a demo for your use case
    • https://rxjs-dev.firebaseapp.com/operator-decision-tree

    helps you find the right operator, good in the beginning
    Great resources
    

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21. It's a wrap!
    https://www.thinktecture.com/yannick-baron
    

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