tc39/proposal-observable resource

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A TC39 stage-1 proposal introducing an Observable type to the ECMAScript standard library for modeling push-based asynchronous data streams like DOM events, timers, and sockets. The repository contains the specification draft and polyfill implementations rather than a production library.

Use cases

• handle DOM event streams reactively in JavaScript
• understand how the Observable proposal works
• implement push-based async data streams
• standardize reactive stream protocol across platforms
• subscribe and unsubscribe from event streams with cleanup

When to choose

• you want to follow or contribute to the ECMAScript Observable standardization effort
• you need a minimal spec-compliant Observable implementation to build on
• you're evaluating reactive stream APIs for a platform or library

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured reactive library with operators like filter and map today - use RxJS instead
• you need something stable for production - the proposal is still stage 1 and inactive since 2019
• you need guaranteed future compatibility, since the proposal may change or be withdrawn

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

concurrency developer-tools programming-languages web-development frontend browser ecmascript-proposal observables reactive-programming tc39 specification push-based-streams javascript nodejs

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