Reactive programming is taking the software world by storm. This book combines the reactive programming philosophy with the possibilities of JavaScript, and you’ll learn how to apply reactive techniques to your own projects. We’ll focus on reactive programming to manage and combine streams of events. In fact, we’ll cover how to make entire real-world, concurrent applications just by declaring transformations on our program’s events.

Reactive Programming with RxJava targets intermediate and advanced Java programmers. You should be fairly comfortable with Java; however, prior knowledge of reactive programming is not required.

You should read this book to learn the basic of reactive programming with Reactive Streams and understand what they are good for, when they should be used, and the principles behind them.