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Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions

Matt Marenghi · talk · Watch on YouTube

Web developmentFunctional programming

What it is

A Netflix JavaScript talk on using Reactive Extensions (Rx) for asynchronous UI code. It covers Observables, composing events such as drag and drop, and sequencing Ajax requests.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a clear, mind-changing introduction to observables and async programming from engineers using Rx in production.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2016

What HN commenters said

  1. “The conf talk on youtube by Matt Marenghi [linked in the post] is really awesome.”

    Netflix talk with great examples of async JavaScript using Rx

    film42, 2014-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix”

  2. “have a look at this presentation about Observables at Netflix as it's quite mind changing”

    Netflix presentation on Observables as the future of async code

    sktrdie, 2016-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Async and Await”

  3. “I recently watched a Netflix one, published by Matt Marenghi, which to me was infinitely better.”

    Explains observables as collections over time that can terminate

    shaydoc, 2014-06 · Recommendation · in “Erik Meijer: Duality and the End of Reactive [video]”

  4. “See this video from Jafar Husain, a tech lead at Netflix, talk about how they use RxJS at Netflix”

    How Netflix uses RxJS in production

    mattpodwysocki, 2014-06 · Recommendation · in “An Introduction to Reactive Programming”

  5. “is a great talk on this”

    Great talk on reactive extensions and async JavaScript

    sriku, 2014-07 · Recommendation · in “My Golang UI package: lessons learned about threading and plans for the future”

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Topics: rxjs, observables, async javascript, netflix, reactive extensions

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