About this episode
This episode explores the concept of Signal in JavaScript and its relation to the observer design pattern.
In this episode, we'll explore a concept called Signal that has been getting a lot of traction in JavaScript over the past few years. I'll describe a simple implementation so you can understand the internals and then see how it relates to the traditional object-oriented design pattern observer.
Topics covered
- Signal
- JavaScript
- object-oriented design pattern
- observer pattern
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Signal
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