The first book on Front-end Reactive Architectures

Luca Mezzalira
codeburst
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2 min readOct 7, 2017

When I proposed this book the first time a couple of years ago, Reactive Programming wasn’t “a thing” yet in the Front-End ecosystem.
Last year I tried again and APress decided to work with me for making it happen.

At the moment there are many Reactive Programming books, but in this one, I tried to make an effort gathering my experience as Architect and the studies I did in the past years on Reactive Programming because often this paradigm is tightly linked with Rx.JS but it’s way more than that.

I decided to spend the last 8 months preparing examples on different reactive frameworks and libraries understanding the pros and the cons of the most famous ones like Cycle.js, MobX and the SAM pattern.

I’ve also tried to provide extra value abstracting the concepts behind Reactive Programming in order to explain that when we master these concepts it’s not important anymore the library we are using because we can easily switch from one to the other because we understand the principles behind them.

Finally, I decided to interview a couple of Reactive gurus like Ben Lesh and Michel Weststrate on the future of this paradigm, therefore thanks a lot to them that once again they are helping with their knowledge and experience the Reactive community not only with great libraries and frameworks but also spreading the Reactive knowledge.

If you want to get a preview of what the book is talking about I suggest to read this post on APress website, it’s an extract from the first chapter on Reactive versus Interactive Programming, I hope you will enjoy.

Last but not least, I’m happy to say that the book is already available on Apress and Amazon for pre-orders.

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Written by Luca Mezzalira

Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, O’Reilly Author, International Speaker, YouTuber, creator of Dear Architects newsletter

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