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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564732
Pages 538 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Nathan Rozentals Nathan Rozentals
Profile icon Nathan Rozentals

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Up and Running Quickly 2. Exploring the Type System 3. Interfaces, Classes, Inheritance, and Modules 4. Generics and Advanced Type Inference 5. Asynchronous Language Features 6. Decorators 7. Integration with JavaScript 8. Strict Compiler Options 9. Using Observables to Transform Data 10. Test-Driven Development 11. Angular 12. React 13. Vue 14. Node and Express 15. An AWS Serverless API 16. Micro Front-ends 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Introduction to Observables

To begin the discussion on Observables, let's first install the RxJS library as follows:

npm install rxjs

The RxJS library already includes the declaration files that are needed by TypeScript, so there is no need to install them separately using @types.

To generate an Observable, we can use the of function as follows:

import { of, Observable } from "rxjs";
const emitter : Observable<number> = of(1, 2, 3, 4);

Here, we start by importing the of function and the Observable type from the rxjs library. We are then defining a constant variable named emitter, which is using generic syntax to define its type as an Observable of type number. We then assign the result of the of function to the emitter variable, which will create an Observable from the numbers 1 through 4. We can now create an Observer as follows:

emitter.subscribe((value: number) => {
    console.log(`value: ${value}`)
});

Here, we are calling...

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