Yes, I understand this part. My concern is that I ...

# rx

[yougin]

Yes, I understand this part. My concern is that I don’t see any changes in behavior when I remove publish and just use merge. I’m afraid the difference is so subtle to me that I can’t see it. Could you guys please tell more about why the Observable have to be published first before splitting it?

I’ve heard what Jake said in his talk about managing state: “takes the Observable which is coming in, and allowed to subscribe to it as many times as you want and do as many things as you want with it as long as you ultimately return a single Observable from that function.”

But then again, if I remove publish then everything works just fine.