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Mixing reactive programming with non-reactive return requirements

Variable context from an initial non-reactive caller The whole application cannot be reactive i.e. this method needs to return a result here public string GetTextOfInterest() { var ...
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Pushing data into chunks from server to mobile client

I am developing a windows phone application. On the first screen user enters some unique code and based on that code there are say 200 or more records on the server which I want to return to the ...
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How can one simply follow reactive manifesto? [closed]

I am quite confused about the Reactive Manifesto. According to this manifesto a reactive system should be: Responsive Resilient Elastic Message Driven Now for being responsive and resilient, as ...
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Maintaining State without assignment

I am learning functional programming and I have trouble understanding how some particular scenarios are implemented without the use of assignment. The following simple problem pretty much sums up my ...
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What is the relationship between “flux” and pure functional reactive programming?

Flux, as far as I understood, is a technique about dealing with the dataflow of an application unidirectionally, keeping state isolated from the rest of the program in read-only, self-contained ...
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GUI concept for a reactive, asynchronous graphical editor

I think I could describe this problem in an abstract way, but I suppose it will be easier to understand when I describe it in a real world environment. The Problem Imagine a graphical editor where ...
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How do Event Bus and ReativeX interact with each other?

I wanted to look into communication/decoupling patterns and how to improve them. My current approach is to have a centralized commander in the form of an Event Bus and make him be the one to respond ...
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Why is Akka being marketed as reactive? Is Actor Model reactive?

As far as I understand the Actor Model and the Reactive Programming are separate concepts. Actor Model does not seem to be inherently reactive to me. However the Akka framework which is an Actor ...
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Reactive programming vs MVVM pattern for managing GUI updates

Reactive programming and MVVM are two approaches that can address the problem of separating the domain layer from the UI. MVVM does this by defining a viewmodel, which is a data structure mapped to ...