Reactive Programming Made Simple

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Claims a much simpler reactive model that preserves everyday FRP properties and ships as a 1Kb library of pure JS. Shows the actual tool: Tracker, used to wrap arbitrary functions so they rerun when real dependencies change. Glues heterogeneous pieces — react, manual DOM and charting lib — with live demo that randomizes dates and temperatures; implementation is under ~2KB gzipped, runs in the browser, and visibly updates without extra plumbing.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:16Modern applications
3. 3:06The Meteor stack
4. 6:30State of one component can affect another component
5. 8:53Smart dependency tracking
6. 12:55Demo

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