Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is a programming paradigm for
working with time-varying values, better capturing the temporal aspect of
mutable state. Signal is a data structure representing a time-varying value.
For example, consider the position of the mouse. The signal mousePosition
represents current mouse position. When the mouse moves, the value changes
automatically.
Signals can also be transformed and combined without typical hazards of the stateful programs.
Signal is very low level construct that can be used to create signals from scratch:
var signal = require("signalize/core").signal
var time = signal(function(next) {
setInterval(function() {
next(Date.now())
}, 1000)
})
Signals can be spawned in order to consume it's changes:
var spawn = require("signalize/core").spawn
spawn(time, function(value) {
console.log(value)
})
// => 1352077824718
// => 1352077825719
// => 1352077826720
// => 1352077827721
// => 1352077828722
// => 1352077829723
npm install signalize