README.md
RxJS 5
Reactive Extensions Library for JavaScript. This is a rewrite of Reactive-Extensions/RxJS and is the latest production-ready version of RxJS. This rewrite is meant to have better performance, better modularity, better debuggable call stacks, while staying mostly backwards compatible, with some breaking changes that reduce the API surface.
- Code of Conduct
- Contribution Guidelines
- Maintainer Guidelines
- Creating Operators
- Migrating From RxJS 4 to RxJS 5
- API Documentation (WIP)
Versions In This Repository
- master - commits that will be included in the next minor or patch release
- next - commits that will be included in the next major release (breaking changes)
Most PRs should be made to master, unless you know it is a breaking change.
Important
By contributing or commenting on issues in this repository, whether you've read them or not, you're agreeing to the Contributor Code of Conduct. Much like traffic laws, ignorance doesn't grant you immunity.
Installation and Usage
ES6 via npm
npm install rxjs
To import the entire core set of functionality:
import Rx from 'rxjs/Rx';
Rx.Observable.of(1,2,3)
To import only what you need by patching (this is useful for size-sensitive bundling):
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/observable/of';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
Observable.of(1,2,3).map(x => x + '!!!'); // etc
To import what you need and use it with proposed bind operator:
Note: This additional syntax requires transpiler support and this syntax may be completely withdrawn from TC39 without notice! Use at your own risk.
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { of } from 'rxjs/observable/of';
import { map } from 'rxjs/operator/map';
Observable::of(1,2,3)::map(x => x + '!!!'); // etc
CommonJS via npm
To install this library for CommonJS (CJS) usage, use the following command:
npm install rxjs
Import all core functionality:
var Rx = require('rxjs/Rx');
Rx.Observable.of(1,2,3); // etc
Import only what you need and patch Observable (this is useful in size-sensitive bundling scenarios):
var Observable = require('rxjs/Observable').Observable;
// patch Observable with appropriate methods
require('rxjs/add/observable/of');
require('rxjs/add/operator/map');
Observable.of(1,2,3).map(function (x) { return x + '!!!'; }); // etc
Import operators and use them manually you can do the following (this is also useful for bundling):
var of = require('rxjs/observable/of').of;
var map = require('rxjs/operator/map').map;
map.call(of(1,2,3), function (x) { return x + '!!!'; });
You can also use the above method to build your own Observable and export it from your own module.
All Module Types (CJS/ES6/AMD/TypeScript) via npm
To install this library via npm version 3, use the following command:
npm install @reactivex/rxjs
This will include CJS/Global builds and can be used for all module types.
If you are using npm version 2 before this library has achieved a stable version, you need to specify the library version explicitly:
npm install @reactivex/rxjs@5.0.0
CDN
For CDN, you can use unpkg:
https://unpkg.com/rxjs@version/bundles/Rx.min.js
replace version with the current version. See docs.
Node.js Usage:
var Rx = require('@reactivex/rxjs');
Rx.Observable.of('hello world')
.subscribe(function(x) { console.log(x); });
Goals
- Provide better performance than preceding versions of RxJS
- To model/follow the Observable Spec Proposal to the observable.
- Provide more modular file structure in a variety of formats
- Provide more debuggable call stacks than preceding versions of RxJS
Building/Testing
The build and test structure is fairly primitive at the moment. There are various npm scripts that can be run:
- build_es6: Transpiles the TypeScript files from
src/
todist/es6
- build_cjs: Transpiles the ES6 files from
dist/es6
todist/cjs
- build_amd: Transpiles the ES6 files from
dist/es6
todist/amd
- build_global: Transpiles/Bundles the CommonJS files from
dist/cjs
todist/global/Rx.js
- build_all: Performs all of the above in the proper order.
- build_test: builds ES6, then CommonJS, then runs the tests with
jasmine
- build_perf: builds ES6, CommonJS, then global, then runs the performance tests with
protractor
- build_docs: generates API documentation from
dist/es6
todist/docs
- build_cover: runs
istanbul
code coverage against test cases - test: runs tests with
jasmine
, must have built prior to running. - tests2png: generates PNG marble diagrams from test cases.
npm run info
will list available script.
Example
# build all the things!
npm run build_all
Performance Tests
Run npm run build_perf
or npm run perf
to run the performance tests with protractor
.
Run npm run perf_micro
to run micro performance test benchmarking operator.
Adding documentation
RxNext uses ESDoc to generate API documentation. Refer to ESDoc's documentation for syntax. Run npm run build_docs
to generate.
Generating PNG marble diagrams
The script npm run tests2png
requires some native packages installed locally: imagemagick
, graphicsmagick
, and ghostscript
.
For Mac OS X with Homebrew:
brew install imagemagick
brew install graphicsmagick
brew install ghostscript
- You may need to install the Ghostscript fonts manually:
- Download the tarball from the gs-fonts project
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/ghostscript && tar zxvf /path/to/ghostscript-fonts.tar.gz -C /usr/local/share/ghostscript
For Debian Linux:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
apt-get install imagemagick
apt-get install graphicsmagick
apt-get install ghostscript
For Windows and other Operating Systems, check the download instructions here: