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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

You're reading from   Reactive Programming in Kotlin Design and build non-blocking, asynchronous Kotlin applications with RXKotlin, Reactor-Kotlin, Android, and Spring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473026
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rivu Chakraborty Rivu Chakraborty
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Preface 1. A Short Introduction to Reactive Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Functional Programming with Kotlin and RxKotlin 3. Observables, Observers, and Subjects 4. Introduction to Backpressure and Flowables 5. Asynchronous Data Operators and Transformations 6. More on Operators and Error Handling 7. Concurrency and Parallel Processing in RxKotlin with Schedulers 8. Testing RxKotlin Applications 9. Resource Management and Extending RxKotlin 10. Introduction to Web Programming with Spring for Kotlin Developers 11. REST APIs with Spring JPA and Hibernate 12. Reactive Kotlin and Android

Reactive programming with Reactor

Just like the ReactiveX Framework, Reactor is also a fourth-generation reactive programming library. It allows you to write non-blocking reactive apps. However, it has some significant differences as compared to ReactiveX, as listed here:

  • Unlike ReactiveX, which supports several platforms and languages (for example, RxSwift for Swift, RxJava for JVM, RxKotlin for Kotlin, RxJS for JavaScript, RxCpp for C++, and so on), Reactor supports only JVM.
  • You can use RxJava and RxKotlin, if you have Java 6+. However, to use Reactor, you need Java 8 and above.
  • RxJava and RxKotlin doesn't provide any direct integration with Java 8 functional APIs, such as CompletableFuture, Stream, and Duration, which Reactor does.
  • If you're planning to implement reactive programming in Android, you have to use RxAndroid, RxJava, and/or RxKotlin (collectively...
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