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Clojure Reactive Programming

Clojure Reactive Programming

By : Leonardo Borges
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Clojure Reactive Programming

Clojure Reactive Programming

4.3 (13)
By: Leonardo Borges

Overview of this book

If you are a Clojure developer who is interested in using Reactive Programming to build asynchronous and concurrent applications, this book is for you. Knowledge of Clojure and Leiningen is required. Basic understanding of ClojureScript will be helpful for the web chapters, although it is not strictly necessary.
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Index

Enter React.js


As we'll see in this chapter, the answer to the question posed in the previous section is a resounding yes and, as you might have guessed, it involves React.js.

But what makes it special?

It's wise to start with what React is not. It is not an MVC framework and as such it is not a replacement for the likes of AngularJS, Backbone.js, and so on. React focuses solely on the V in MVC, and presents a refreshingly different way to think about user interfaces. We must take a slight detour in order to explore how it does that.

Lessons from functional programming

As functional programmers, we don't need to be convinced of the benefits of immutability. We bought into the premise long ago. However, should we not be able to use immutability efficiently, it would not have become commonplace in functional programming languages.

We owe it to the huge amount of research that went into Purely Functional Data Structures—first by Okasaki in his book of the same title (see http://www.amazon.com/Purely...

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