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PHP Reactive Programming

PHP Reactive Programming

By : Sikora
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PHP Reactive Programming

PHP Reactive Programming

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By: Sikora

Overview of this book

Reactive Programming helps us write code that is concise, clear, and readable. Combining the power of reactive programming and PHP, one of the most widely used languages, will enable you to create web applications more pragmatically. PHP Reactive Programming will teach you the benefits of reactive programming via real-world examples with a hands-on approach. You will create multiple projects showing RxPHP in action alone and in combination with other libraries. The book starts with a brief introduction to reactive programming, clearly explaining the importance of building reactive applications. You will use the RxPHP library, built a reddit CLI using it, and also re-implement the Symfony3 Event Dispatcher with RxPHP. You will learn how to test your RxPHP code by writing unit tests. Moving on to more interesting aspects, you will implement a web socket backend by developing a browser game. You will learn to implement quite complex reactive systems while avoiding pitfalls such as circular dependencies by moving the RxJS logic from the frontend to the backend. The book will then focus on writing extendable RxPHP code by developing a code testing tool and also cover Using RxPHP on both the server and client side of the application. With a concluding chapter on reactive programming practices in other languages, this book will serve as a complete guide for you to start writing reactive applications in PHP.
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Operators specific for RxJS 5

As we said, there are extra operators in RxJS 5 that aren't available in RxPHP right now. There are in fact, quite of few of them, but many are very similar in principle. We mentioned some of them in Chapter 07 , Implementing Socket IPC and WebSocket Server/Client, such as audit() or throttle(), including all their variations that use timeouts or other Observables to create time windows. Also, all operators derived from buffer() aren't so interesting for us.

We'll have a look at the three of them that serve some other interesting purposes.

The expand() operator

The interesting thing about the expand() operator is that it works recursively. It takes as a parameter a callback that needs to return another Observable. The callback is then applied to all values emitted by the returned Observable. This goes on as long as the returned Observables emit values.

Consider the following example where we use expand() to recursively multiply a value by two as...

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