Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Matt Marenghi

Topic

reactive programming

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2016

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From the original HN conversations

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• The conf talk on youtube by Matt Marenghi [linked in the post] is really awesome. Provides great examples and resources. Really worth 28-min. Direct Link: [VIDEO]

• I don't really like await . It seems to be a syntactical fix which acts in a quite magical way. Not sure if introducing magic to a language syntax is what we want. Rather, we should think about data flow of our async apps differently. …

• i thought it was a good presentation, however, I recently watched a Netflix one, published by Matt Marenghi, which to me was infinitely better. I think the description of events as just another collection, albeit a time based collection flow was nicer ( Observable === …