Functional Reactive Programming 1st Edition

by Stephen Blackheath (Author), Anthony Jones (Author)

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Functional Reactive Programming teaches the concepts and applications of FRP. It offers a careful walk-through of core FRP operations and introduces the concepts and techniques you'll need to use FRP in any language.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Today's software is shifting to more asynchronous, event-based solutions. For decades, the Observer pattern has been the go-to event infrastructure, but it is known to be bug-prone. Functional reactive programming (FRP) replaces Observer, radically improving the quality of event-based code.

About the Book

Functional Reactive Programming teaches you how FRP works and how to use it. You'll begin by gaining an understanding of what FRP is and why it's so powerful. Then, you'll work through greenfield and legacy code as you learn to apply FRP to practical use cases. You'll find examples in this book from many application domains using both Java and JavaScript. When you're finished, you'll be able to use the FRP approach in the systems you build and spend less time fixing problems.

What's Inside

Think differently about data and events
FRP techniques for Java and JavaScript
Eliminate Observer one listener at a time
Explore Sodium, RxJS, and Kefir.js FRP systems

About the Reader

Readers need intermediate Java or JavaScript skills. No experience with functional programming or FRP required.

About the Authors

Stephen Blackheath and Anthony Jones are experienced software developers and the creators of the Sodium FRP library for multiple languages. Foreword by Heinrich Apfelmus. Illustrated by Duncan Hill.

Table of Contents

Stop listening!
Core FRP
Some everyday widget stuff
Writing a real application
New concepts
FRP on the web
Switch
Operational primitives
Continuous time
Battle of the paradigms
Programming in the real world
Helpers and patterns
Refactoring
Adding FRP to existing projects
Future directions

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About the Author

Stephen Blackheath is a professional developer and FRP advocate. He's the primary author of the Sodium FRP library for Java.

Anthony Jones writes code for a living and has spent half a decade refactoring a Java based configuration GUI to a FRP based framework. He is a contributor to the Sodium project.

Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications; 1 edition (August 20, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1633430103
ISBN-13: 978-1633430105
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
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Akram Ahmad

Really Good Book, Replete with Novel Ideas on Functional Reactive Programming.

August 4, 2017

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- This fine book that is replete with novel ideas: Functional Reactive Programming by Stephen Blackheath and Anthony Jones (Manning Publications). It is a joy to read on many counts, not the least of which is the authors' endearingly disarming humor and the skill with which they tell their story. It's all stuff, no fluff!
- Nuggets of wisdom—on all things having to do with the reactive programming paradigm—await you in the pages of this book, presented with delightful humor. While this book does not read as evenly as the others in my list, it is nonetheless absolutely worth your time; there is coverage herein that I have simply not seen elsewhere; ignore Functional Reactive Programming at your own peril.
- For a more-detailed review, checkout my post by searching on the keywords "Programming Digressions Best Reactive Programming Books"

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Zbigniew Sokolowski

Initially I thought that book will be a good starter for getting more familiar with concepts of functional ...

September 7, 2016

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Initially I thought that book will be a good starter for getting more familiar with concepts of functional reactive programming.
I opened a book and ok, I don't think that Sodium library which is was created by authors is popular but book looks to provide basics of FRP.
So I started to read, some parts are ok, like fragments about Von Neuman machine. Then my impression about book and it's contents was gradually dropping I read till half of it and then I said to myself enough. Why?

It appeared that old truth that having knowledge about particular subject have nothing in common with ability to deliver and explain it.
This book is intended for developers with OOP background or even functional programming to get familiar with FRP. Authors instead of focusing of explanation of simple concepts thus helping to understand I stress paradigm shift. Which is obviously always difficult writes that they are putting their reader on deep water ... This is not a proper way and this is excuse of mentioned inability of providing good simple introduction.
Then programming examples too long, vague in subject. Code style far from what we call clean code. Authors stressed that readers should focus and put a lot of effort in analyzing their code (btw a lot of boilerplate code there). And again I think that is excuse on providing mediocre quality examples and forcing reader to do authors job.

After a half I said sorry I gave up. Disappointing.

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Rakesh

Good book for functional programming beginner.

September 9, 2016

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You will find this book useful if you have just started your journey of functional programming and running examples in UI excites you. It teaches you how to get rid of imperative mindset and think in terms of streams and expressions. In traditional UI thinking(imperative), you would attach listeners to the widgets and than deal with events. This book teaches you to look at widgets as a stream of events and then use filter, maps and other functional constructs to convert it into stream that you are really interested in. Concept of stream is applicable in variety of scenarios, for e.g reading files can be seen as stream of data chunks, data coming from a server can been seen as a stream. This approach has very less boilerplate code and it is solid(less defects). But it needs patience to appreciate it. UI is considered to be a stronghold of imperative listener based approach. I think authors have done excellent job in showing alternative . If you are excited about UI(bouncing balls, drag and drop to canvas etc) and want to look at an alternative way of solving problems that is gaining popularity these days, then this book is for you.
Don't use this book to learn Swing or Sodium, use it to mould your brain to functional stream based thinking from imperative thinking. I would suggest to type all the examples as you proceed . It is very satisfying to see running UI examples.

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September 2, 2016

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Who in this world uses swing and awt now? Examples are ok'ish but are based on swing n awt. I had to go thru these concepts since after school I have not seen dese at all. Disappointed

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