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38 lines
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# Reactimal
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Reactimal provides a set of primitives that can be used to express your code as a logic graph using
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reactive programming methods. Reactive programming inverts the dependency relationship between
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functions and their inputs. No longer do callers need to know the signature of the functions
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they call. Instead computed values subscribe to scalar properties or other computed values. The
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reactive method improves code readability and reduces the tendency toward spaghetti code.
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Reactimal provides the following reactive programming primitives. Each type of primitive is
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[subscribable](./docs/subscribable.md) and provides a single output value (or promise), but differ
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in how they receive their input.
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## Input Primitives
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- A [property](./docs/property.md) directly receives a scalar value. It serves as an entry point to
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a logic graph for scalar values.
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- A [container](./docs/container.md) wraps javascript container objects and triggers an update when
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a property changes or a method is called. (NOTE: Nestable container changes are tracked only one
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level deep.)
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## Computational Primitives
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- A [computed](./docs/computed.md) only receives values from other subscribables but serves to
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compute new values. This is the function in the logic graph.
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- A [stream](./docs/stream.md) is the asynchronous version of a computed.
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Reactimal also includes a few [utilities](./docs/utilities.md) that may be useful when building
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logic graphs.
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## Inspiration
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Reactimal is the result of years of learning from the following projects:
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- [KnockoutJS](http://knockoutjs.com/)
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- [Overture](https://github.com/fastmail/overture)
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- [Redux](https://redux.js.org/)
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- [Mithril](https://mithril.js.org/)
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