RxJS and the Reactive Programming methodology have become an integral part of the Angular ecosystem. We can find its usage in the Angular Http, Form, EventEmitter, and Router modules. Like any extensive library or language, there is a small portion of functionality that provides the majority of the benefit. This talk aims to go over what we consider learning to provide the most benefit in the shortest amount of time.

In this talk we will cover:

– What RxJS and Reactive Programming is

– How to debug internal RxJS errors

– How to properly clean up after yourself when finished with observables

– How to properly handle errors within observables

– How to navigate the extensive RxJS documentation

– What operators you should be importing into your Angular app

– How to use RxJS to create dumb components and cleaner code

– How to take advantage of Typescript generic support within RxJS