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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Reactive Programming with JavaScript - Jonathan Hayward</h1> |
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2016-05-27 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/jonathan-hayward/">#jonathan hayward</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26202851-reactive-programming-with-javascript">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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Learn the hot new front-end web framework from Facebook: ReactJS, an easy way |
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of developing the V in MVC and a better approach to software engineering in |
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JavaScript.</p> |
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★☆☆☆☆ |
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<p>If I had to define this book in a single word, I'd had to go with "unfocused".</p> |
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<p>Now, with that title, you'd expect to learn about the principles that drove |
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the design of things like "ReactJS". But it doesn't. This is not about |
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Reactive Programming. It's about ReactJS. And it's not about Reactive |
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Programming, it's about Reactive <em>Funcional</em> Programming.</p> |
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<p>Well, you'd still expect it to come with some conclusions about ReactJS, |
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right? Wrong again.</p> |
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<p>Most of the time you'll spend reading things that have absolutely no relation |
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with reactive programming, functional reactive programming or even ReactJS. |
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There is a long rant about C++ which ends with no conclusion at all and gives |
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no pointers on how it connects to the whole. There is another discussion about |
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INTERCAL which leads to nowhere -- maybe, except, the author's bank account |
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for the number of words.</p> |
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<p>At some point, the author finally discusses a bit of functional programming |
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talking about <code>map</code>, <code>filter</code> and <code>reduce</code>, but it goes nowhere from there and |
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a whole chapter with 10+ pages have a single paragraph about real, focused |
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talk about functional programming; the rest is just more rambling going to |
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nowhere.</p> |
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<p>If it was possible to run tests over the content of the book, the amount of |
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content out of a coverage on a BDD about Reactive Programming would point that |
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about 90% of it is never tested. It's content that talks absolutely <em>nothing</em> |
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about reactive programming, with large portions being repeated over and over |
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again (which makes me, once again, wonder why Packt pays for reviewers when |
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this kind of bullshit happens).</p> |
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<p>"This book is about ReactJS", the author says in the introduction, but there |
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are only 4 chapters about ReactJS, with terrible JavaScript and absolutely no |
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explanation on <em>why</em> things are being designed that way.</p> |
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<p>You want a review in a single phrase? Ok, that phrase would be "stay away from |
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this book".</p> |
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