How to use RxJs with Socket.IO on event

Question

I want to use RxJS inside of my socket.on(\'sense\',function(data){});. I am stuck and confused with very few documentation available and my lack of understanding R

Answer 1

You can use Rx.Observable.fromEvent (https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/api/core/operators/fromevent.md).

Here's how I did a similar thing using Bacon.js, which has a very similar API: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon-minsk-2015/blob/gh-pages/server.js#L13

So in Bacon.js it would go like

io.on('connection', function(socket){
  Bacon.fromEvent(socket, "sense")
    .filter(function(data) { return true })
    .forEach(function(data) { dealWith(data) })
})

And in RxJs you'd replace Bacon.fromEvent with Rx.Observable.fromEvent.