Reactivity and Reactive Programming
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Nearly all modern browser UI frameworks boast Reactivity as a core feature. What is Reactivity all about? Is it useful or applicable outside of frontend development? what is the hype all about anyways?

Most modern JavaScript UI frameworks boast Reactivity, but have you ever wondered what that means exactly?

In my opinion, Reactivity is largely responsible for making modern frontend development unintuitive to outsiders.

This blog post explains what Reactivity is, and how it manifested in the frontend development world today.

You might find this interesting if you’re: a frontend dev unfamiliar with the concept, a non-frontend dev interested in frontend, or just curious what Reactivity is!

  • JonC@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why the assumption that reactivity is only a front-end thing?

    I’ve used it plenty on the back-end when dealing with streams of data that need to trigger other processing steps.

    • cosmicbytes@programming.devOP
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      2 months ago

      You’re right, and I actually make that point in the blog post! Reactivity is frequently used on the frontend though. It is part of all the major UI frameworks, but I agree it is not only there.

    • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      While it is popular in the web browser world, it is not inherent to it. Reactive programming is a general programming paradigm that can be applied anywhere, without a UI involved.

      Second paragraph