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Reactivity and Reactive Programming [Blog Post] (cosmicbyt.es)
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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!

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[-] jonc211@programming.dev 2 points 1 month 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.

[-] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 4 points 1 month 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.

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