bacon.js

The improvements in these tools aren't supposed to push us to create novel projects. They're supposed to get out of our way. Some do better than others, and some paradigms can be more helpful than others. It makes sense that we have competing ideas and competing frameworks to implement those ideas. Some projects get a bit flashy and buzzwordy, it's true. Bacon.js [0] always sticks out in my mind as a prototypical example, though I think it's tongue-in-cheek. I try not to let that flashiness get in the way, though. The fact is, Bacon.js is useful to me, when I try to make beautiful and efficient code to render beautiful and efficient HTML. Their homepage doesn't change that. React's performance is impressive, and may be important to me; ditto with Flux and code readability. And the theories underlying those libraries (DOM diff and unidrect

Heck yeah, be sure to also check out: - https://github.com/puffnfresh/bilby.js - https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land - https://github.com/baconjs/bacon.js - https://github.com/kriskowal/frb - https://github.com/swannodette/mori - And essentially all things PureScript: https://github.com/purescript/purescript

Here's another javascript FRP library: https://github.com/baconjs/bacon.js (it was inspired by Rx) I've been using bacon.js in conjunction with Facebook's React to write more of my application declaratively. React automatically updates the DOM when bacon properties change.

For those who are only interested in the render loop, I made a library[1] around this abstraction. I plan to expand it with a toolkit to allow thinking in terms of batches, queues and consumers, à la bacon.js[2]. [1]: https://github.com/zenoamaro/honeyloops [2]: https://github.com/baconjs/bacon.js

How does flow-based programming compare with functional reactive programming, like Elm [1] and Bacon.js [2]? Could those be made visual with a graph editor like this? Bacon.js has some flow diagrams [3] to describe some of its advanced concepts. 1. http://elm-lang.org 2. https://github.com/baconjs/bacon.js 3. https://github.com/baconjs/bacon.js/wiki/Diagrams

If you want a better alternative to RxJs, also written in Coffescript, check out Bacon.js. https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js

Facebook's recent React framework is also worth mentioning (http://facebook.github.io/react/). A nice JS library for reactive programming is Bacon.js - https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js - it's smaller, the source code is easier to read and I found it a little easier to use.

Channels allow you to write code that "pulls" events off of a stream or enumerate-like structure. This can dramatically simplify event-heavy front end code. Bacon.js is a library that exposes a similar technique (FRP), and their readme outlines the benefits in tangible terms https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js

Thanks for the heads up! Do you have time to explain why bacon is better than Reactive Extensions, and thus the only frp library for JavaScript that you chose to link to? I don't have too much experience with frp in general (primarily just the Reactive Extensions for .NET), and even less with JavaScript implementations, so I'm not really in a position to begin making the comparison. Edit: ah, found https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js#for-rxjs-users for starters!

Or even better, Bacon.js https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js

My favorite functional reactive programming library for JavaScript is Bacon.js: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js "It's the _ of Events. Too bad the symbol ~ is not allowed in Javascript."

Bacon.js: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js -- functional reactive programming in javascript. It's another way out of callback hell when doing UI work.

FWIW, Bacon.js implements switching with flatMap and flatMapLatest Helpful diagrams: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js/wiki

Bacon.js[1] is another functional reactive programming library for JavaScript. Many similar concepts to RX.js, but the library is much smaller. While Bacon.js might not be the most mature library around, I've used it successfully on (almost) daily basis for few months. [1] https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js