With Reactive Extensions you sometimes need one observable sequence to run after another observable sequence completes. Perhaps the first one has side effects the second one depends on. Egads! I know, side effects are evil in this functional world, but it happens. Let’s make this more concrete with some contrived sample code. public static class BlogDemo
{
public static IObservable<int> Extract()
{
return new[] { 10, 20, 70, 100 }.ToObservable();
}
public static IObservable<string> GetStuffs()
{
return new[] { "Family...
For a long time, good folks like Matt Podwysocki have extolled the virtues of Reactive Extensions (aka Rx) to me. It piqued my interest enough for me to write a post about it, but that was the extent of it. It sounded interesting, but it didn’t have any relevance to any projects I had at the time. Fortunately, now that I work at GitHub I have the pleasure to work with an Rx Guru, Paul Betts, on a project that actively uses Rx. And man, is my mind blown by Rx. Hits Me Like A Hurricane What...