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Learning Scala Programming

You're reading from  Learning Scala Programming

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788392822
Pages 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Vikash Sharma Vikash Sharma
Profile icon Vikash Sharma

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started with Scala Programming 2. Building Blocks of Scala 3. Shaping our Scala Program 4. Giving Meaning to Programs with Functions 5. Getting Familiar with Scala Collections 6. Object-Oriented Scala Basics 7. Next Steps in Object-Oriented Scala 8. More on Functions 9. Using Powerful Functional Constructs 10. Advanced Functional Programming 11. Working with Implicits and Exceptions 12. Introduction to Akka 13. Concurrent Programming in Scala 14. Programming with Reactive Extensions 15. Testing in Scala 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

React to RxScala


RxScala is a reactive asynchronous streams API provided in Scala. It lets us perform all those concepts we talked about, such as creating Observables, observers, and subscribing to them. There's a variety of operators available for us to manipulate these Observables. Most of the operators return Observables, hence chaining of Observables is also possible.

To start writing some Observables, we'll start by setting up space so that the library becomes available to us. For that, let's follow some steps:

  1. On your favorite internet browser, open https://developer.lightbend.com and click on the START A PROJECT button.
  2. You'll get a few options; just choose Scala and click on CREATE A PROJECT FOR ME!. It'll download the source in a compressed format:
  1. We can extract that and open it in IntelliJ IDE.
  2. Once it's opened in IntelliJ, we can add the library dependency for RxScala in the build file. This can be done by specifying the following:
     libraryDependencies += "io.reactivex" %% "rxscala...
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