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If you are learning Rx you might like some of the stuff I posted in the past year 🙂

yeah. i’ve been checking out a demo framework called FluxFX. that’s based on ReactFX which is based on RxJava

FluxFX is a port of the Flux / React web framework advocated by Facebook

Basically a one-way data flow from models to view. views draw themselves. there’s a back channel for listening to events to prompt view to get more data

A View submits and Action to a model component. The model component can act asynchonously (I believe) and when it’s finished sends a notification. Then the view grabs the updated data.

@jchildress but will it blend? That is the question...

@thomasnield I like it, but no way am I convincing my wife that i need one for $4200... 😞

@jchildress @thomasnield my keyboard’s better. I like the appeal to the “business user” at 1:38

I don't know how much utility can come out of that dial control. It is certainly innovative, but I don't know if I'd use that thing to navigate spreadsheets. Can't see it's utility beyond artistic apps.

@carlw It looks awesome, but yeah I don't know how many people want that for the price.... i would prefer a decent machine and multiple monitors... at least two....

@thomasnield I think the appeal to creatives is nice, but they are usually apple fans 🙂

That's what I was just about to say. I've seen people spend small fortunes on high-end Apple hardware. Maybe they might pull out their wallets for this. Dunno. I think Microsoft should maintain its focus on business users. That's why the Surface Pro 3/4 did so well imo.

That new keyboard they show in the video looks interesting.. Wonder if they'll sell it separately.

I bet they will. MS tends to sell Surface accessories a la carte, sometimes only separately.

i have a few microsoft keyboards here. there are so many better ones out there though (non microsoft)

@edvin have you checked out the mvvmfx or fluxfx projects?

@carlw - https://dzone.com/articles/mvc-is-dead-what-comes-next

first in a series

This is Manuel Mauky’s presentation from javaone on FluxFx

yep. and i see there are some MVVM / MVP elements in Tornado FX Reading over the FluxFX and mvvmFX stuff...it seems like they're using a type of backchannel or secondary notification mechanism to supplement JavaFX binding I've been doing this ad hoc for a few years to address what's called cascading updates which seems needed when there is a many2many relationship between models and views.

I'm definitely looking for something to tighten this up and more effectively communicate it to team members.

@carlw - are you referring to notifications (https://github.com/sialcasa/mvvmFX/wiki/Notifications)?

yes…and there’s something similar in FluxFX to help support one-way data flow I’m not up to speed on the MVVM stuff yet. I’m reading some MS documentation on WPF. In the FluxFX case, the notifications prompt the View to go back and get data from the Model. The fetching may have been triggered by a FluxFX action dispatched to the Model indirectly

In my mind - it comes down to a simple rule of direct dependencies only from view to model/controller (and not the reverse) - the framework just tries to enforce that. The FluxFx stuff is trying to mimic the Redux / React pattern in javascript land (where they have a virtual-dom). Manuel talks about the need for a virtual scenegraph for javafx. I’m not sure the benefit is as large through since afaik the virtual dom is primarily to get around the performance limitations of inherent in the browser dom (although it has other benefits).

that's the react part...it ends up with a render() method in the view layer and some extra things like setState()

you can bind the UI view just to the model and add, update, and retrieve away