RxJS (Reactive Extensions for JavaScript) is a library for reactive programming using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code. It provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams.

What are rxjs's main functionalities?

Creating Observables

This feature allows you to create an Observable stream of data. The code sample demonstrates how to create an Observable that emits several values over time.

const { Observable } = require('rxjs');

const observable = new Observable(subscriber => {
  subscriber.next(1);
  subscriber.next(2);
  subscriber.next(3);
  setTimeout(() => {
    subscriber.next(4);
    subscriber.complete();
  }, 1000);
});

Subscribing to Observables

This feature allows you to subscribe to an Observable and react to the data being emitted. The code sample shows how to subscribe to an Observable created from an array.

const { from } = require('rxjs');

const observable = from([10, 20, 30]);
const subscription = observable.subscribe(x => console.log(x));

Operators

Operators are methods on the Observable type that allow for composing asynchronous operations in a declarative manner. The code sample demonstrates the use of 'filter' and 'map' operators to process data.

const { of } = require('rxjs');
const { map, filter } = require('rxjs/operators');

const nums = of(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
const squaredNums = nums.pipe(
  filter(n => n % 2 !== 0),
  map(n => n * n)
);
squaredNums.subscribe(x => console.log(x));

Handling Errors

This feature allows you to handle errors in an Observable sequence. The code sample demonstrates how to catch and handle errors using the 'catchError' operator.

const { throwError, of } = require('rxjs');
const { catchError } = require('rxjs/operators');

const observable = throwError(new Error('Something went wrong!'));
const handled = observable.pipe(
  catchError(error => of(`Caught: ${error.message}`))
);
handled.subscribe(x => console.log(x), err => console.error(err));

Combining Observables

This feature allows you to combine multiple Observables into one. The code sample demonstrates how to use 'combineLatest' to combine two streams of data.

const { combineLatest, of } = require('rxjs');

const temperature = of(70, 72, 76, 79, 75);
const humidity = of(40, 44, 49, 58, 55);

const combined = combineLatest([temperature, humidity]);
combined.subscribe(([temp, hum]) => console.log(`Temperature: ${temp} Humidity: ${hum}`));

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RxJS: Reactive Extensions For JavaScript

RxJS 6 Stable

MIGRATION AND RELEASE INFORMATION:

Find out how to update to v6, automatically update your TypeScript code, and more!

Current home is MIGRATION.md

FOR V 5.X PLEASE GO TO THE 5.0 BRANCH

Reactive Extensions Library for JavaScript. This is a rewrite of Reactive-Extensions/RxJS and is the latest production-ready version of RxJS. This rewrite is meant to have better performance, better modularity, better debuggable call stacks, while staying mostly backwards compatible, with some breaking changes that reduce the API surface.

Apache 2.0 License

Versions In This Repository

master - This is all of the current, unreleased work, which is against v6 of RxJS right now
stable - This is the branch for the latest version you'd get if you do npm install rxjs

Important

By contributing or commenting on issues in this repository, whether you've read them or not, you're agreeing to the Contributor Code of Conduct. Much like traffic laws, ignorance doesn't grant you immunity.

Installation and Usage

ES6 via npm

npm install rxjs

It's recommended to pull in the Observable creation methods you need directly from 'rxjs' as shown below with range. And you can pull in any operator you need from one spot, under 'rxjs/operators'.

import { range } from 'rxjs';
import { map, filter } from 'rxjs/operators';

range(1, 200).pipe(
  filter(x => x % 2 === 1),
  map(x => x + x)
).subscribe(x => console.log(x));

Here, we're using the built-in pipe method on Observables to combine operators. See pipeable operators for more information.

CommonJS via npm

To install this library for CommonJS (CJS) usage, use the following command:

npm install rxjs

(Note: destructuring available in Node 8+)

const { range } = require('rxjs');
const { map, filter } = require('rxjs/operators');

range(1, 200).pipe(
  filter(x => x % 2 === 1),
  map(x => x + x)
).subscribe(x => console.log(x));

CDN

For CDN, you can use unpkg:

https://unpkg.com/rxjs/bundles/rxjs.umd.min.js

The global namespace for rxjs is rxjs:

const { range } = rxjs;
const { map, filter } = rxjs.operators;

range(1, 200).pipe(
  filter(x => x % 2 === 1),
  map(x => x + x)
).subscribe(x => console.log(x));

Goals

Smaller overall bundles sizes
Provide better performance than preceding versions of RxJS
To model/follow the Observable Spec Proposal to the observable
Provide more modular file structure in a variety of formats
Provide more debuggable call stacks than preceding versions of RxJS

Building/Testing

npm run build_all - builds everything
npm test - runs tests
npm run test_no_cache - run test with ts-node set to false

Performance Tests

Run npm run build_perf or npm run perf to run the performance tests with protractor.

Run npm run perf_micro [operator] to run micro performance test benchmarking operator.

Adding documentation

We appreciate all contributions to the documentation of any type. All of the information needed to get the docs app up and running locally as well as how to contribute can be found in the documentation directory.

Generating PNG marble diagrams

The script npm run tests2png requires some native packages installed locally: imagemagick, graphicsmagick, and ghostscript.

For Mac OS X with Homebrew:

brew install imagemagick
brew install graphicsmagick
brew install ghostscript
You may need to install the Ghostscript fonts manually:
- Download the tarball from the gs-fonts project
- mkdir -p /usr/local/share/ghostscript && tar zxvf /path/to/ghostscript-fonts.tar.gz -C /usr/local/share/ghostscript

For Debian Linux:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
apt-get install imagemagick
apt-get install graphicsmagick
apt-get install ghostscript

For Windows and other Operating Systems, check the download instructions here:

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