Benefits of Reactive Programming

A few years ago, the user interaction was limited to just filling in the form on a web page and submitting it to the server. It was just enough for self-sufficient applications at the time. Today, in the era of the mobile and responsive requirement, a rich user interface showing real-time information is expected to provide wide interactive possibilities.

Also, different types of apps like cloud environments, distributed apps, IoT, and real-time applications need lots of user interaction. This can be achieved by Reactive Programming. It is used to build loosely coupled, responsive, and scalable applications that are more tolerant of failure. There are many advantages of using Reactive Programming, as follows:

• Resource utilization: One of the essential benefits of Reactive Programming is optimizing hardware resource utilization, like the processor, memory, network, and so on. It also improves the performance by reducing serialization.

• Enhanced user experience: Reactive Programming provides better and improved user experience by using an asynchronous mechanism that makes the application smoother and responsive and easy to interact with.
• Consistency: You can design the API with lots more consistency for everything, including database call, frontend, network, computation, or anything else you may need with Reactive Programming.
• Handle with ease: Reactive Programming has first-class support and obvious mechanisms for asynchronous operations out of the box. Also, it makes handling UI interaction and event management easier.
• Simple thread management: Reactive Programming makes it simpler than regular threading mechanisms. Complex threading implementations, making the parallel work in a synchronous manner, and executing the callbacks when the function is done is easier to achieve with Reactive Programming.
• Increased developer productivity: In a typical imperative programming model, the developer has to do lots of work to maintain a straightforward approach to achieve an asynchronous and non-blocking computation. Reactive Programming, on the other hand, addresses the challenge by providing these features out of the box so the developer does not need explicit coordination between elements.