RxJS (very powerful!)

[Tim Consolazio]

I'm working on an article that shows how I'm starting to introduce RxJS features into my code. I'm a huge fan of the event stream approach. It's a great paradigm and I hope to see it included in ES7 as a first class member, right up there with Promises (which IMHO moved the callback problem rather than solving it), and generators (which when combined with Promises really begins to make some progress but has a price in complexity). 

Interestingly, if you create an Angular CLI project, you'll see Rx and RxJS installed in the node modules. So when I moved my efforts to Angular 2 a while back, I was surprised to find that many of the typically demonstrated functions aren't available (e.g. "fromEvent"). To enable them, I installed rx-lite, which seems to me a great way to introduce data streams into your day-to-day programming (and doesn't seem to cause any conflicts). 

You can check out rx-lite on Github at the link below. Now that I've introduced it into my toolset and use it more commonly, I have to say that if you're not getting up to speed on this powerful capability, you're missing out. I'll talk more about how it has been changing my practice in my article, which I'll have out in a day or two.

https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/libraries/lite/rx.lite.md