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Reactive Programming

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A programming paradigm concerned with data flows and the propagation of change, in which a program is expressed as a network of values that automatically update whenever the sources they depend on change, rather than being recomputed by explicit imperative steps.

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A declarative paradigm concerned with data streams and the propagation of change, so that a dependent value updates automatically when the values it depends on change. 1
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1. Reactive programming - Wikipedia
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In computing, reactive programming is a declarative programming paradigm concerned with data streams and the propagation of change.
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