Beginner's Guide to the Reactive Extensions

This page contains resources to help developers get up to speed with the Reactive Extensions. For additional resources see the Learning Resources  page.

Introductory Videos

These videos give you an introduction to the basic use of the Reactive Extensions.

Erik Meijer - Reactive Extensions in 14 Minutes

Rx - Curing Your Asynchronous Programming Blues

Introducing RxJS - Reactive Extensions for JavaScript

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Rx Workshop

The following is a series of workshop videos introducing you to the key concepts in Rx. Each video will showcase a concept and present you with a code challenge exercise at the end. The videos, when viewed sequentially, simulate a classroom learning experience.

	Rx Wokshop - Introduction What is Reactive Extensions? What is reactive programming? How is it used in the real world?		Rx Workshop - Event Processing Learn how to use LINQ operators to filter, aggregate, and group data in observable sequences to produce desired results.
	Rx Workshop - Observables versus Events Learn about the first-class representation of event streams using observable sequences in Rx, and how to use subjects to publish and subscribe to sources.		Rx workshop - Unified Programming Model Learn how to wrap existing event sources, including tasks, asynchronous methods, .NET events, etc. in observable sequences.
	Rx Workshop - Writing queries Learn about the rich set of LINQ query operators available in Rx to query event streams.		Rx Workshop - Schedulers Learn about the use of schedulers to parameterize concurrency in Rx and to test applications using virtual time.

Tutorials & Articles

Curing the asynchronous blues with the Reactive Extensions for .NET
This Hands-on Lab familiarizes the reader with the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx). By exploring the framework through a series of incremental samples, the reader gets a feel for Rx’s compositional power used to write asynchronous applications, based on the concept of observable collections.

Curing the asynchronous blues with the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
This Hands-on Lab familiarizes the reader with the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS). By exploring the framework through a series of incremental samples, the reader gets a feel for Rx’s compositional power used to write asynchronous web sites, based on the concept of observable collections.