Clojure Reactive Programming: Design and implement highly reusable reactive applications by integrating different frameworks with Clojure

Leonardo Borges

Mar 2015 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Key Features

Book DescriptionIf you are a Clojure developer who is interested in using Reactive Programming to build asynchronous and concurrent applications, this book is for you. Knowledge of Clojure and Leiningen is required. Basic understanding of ClojureScript will be helpful for the web chapters, although it is not strictly necessary.What you will learn

• Understand the key abstractions of Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) and Compositional Event Systems (CES)
• Discover how to think in terms of timevarying values and event streams
• Create, compose, and transform Observable sequences with Reactive Extensions
• Create a CES framework from scratch using core.async as its foundation
• Build a simple ClojureScript game using Reagi
• Integrate Om and RxJS in a web application
• Implement a reactive API to Amazon Web Services
• Discover approaches to backpressure and error handling
• Get to grips with futures and learn where they fit in

Who this book is for

About the author

Leonardo Borges is a programming languages enthusiast who loves writing code, contributing to open source software, and speaking on subjects he feels strongly about. After nearly 5 years of consulting at ThoughtWorks, where he worked in two commercial Clojure projects, among many others, he is now a software engineer at Atlassian. He uses Clojure and ClojureScript to help build real-time collaborative editing technology. This is his first full-length book, but he contributed a couple of chapters to Clojure Cookbook, O'Reilly. Leonardo has founded and runs the Sydney Clojure User Group in Australia. He also writes posts about software, focusing on functional programming, on his website (http://www.leonardoborges.com). When he isn't writing code, he enjoys riding motorcycles, weightlifting, and playing the guitar.