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Dean Radcliffe edited this page Dec 20, 2018 · 3 revisions

Antares is a tool to

From events, create consequences

Observables

Observable. This is a datatype in JavaScript, like Promise, which can yield results over time. But it's a richer abstraction, in that it:

  • Can control the process that produces the value, not just work with the value
  • Can produce multiple values
  • Has a rich pure-functional API for composing

Put another way, these points say that an Observable:

  • Is cancelable
  • Is like a stream
  • Has no need to nest callbacks to do alot of stream-fu
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