Front-end Functional Reactive Programming

Exploring the paradigm of functional reactive programming as a tech stack

Technologies

ES2015

Program in the present; compile down to what browsers need to digest; polyfill where required

RxJS (ReactiveX)

Asynchronous and event-based reactive programming library

ReactJS (React)

DOM abstraction; one-way binding; UI library

Run

npm install

npm start

localhost:3333

Aims

• Explore the paradigm of functional reactive programming in the context of front-end development
• Explore the separation of concerns, MVC?
• How much can be pure ECMAScript with libraries essentially being polyfills/shims
• Can this be a feasible implementation in different contexts
  • Creation of flat markup for backend integration
  • SPA builds
  • Semi-native device applications
• Explore testing solutions
• Explore routing solutions
• Explore build pipelines
• Aim to keep API area to a minimum; application of concepts
• Don't want this to be yet another framework
• Limit dependencies