Reacting to change

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Argues that the real change is a move to functional and reactive programming, shows that pure functions plus composition and disciplined side‑effect placement (Redux style) makes code more testable, demonstrates using RxJS observables as a unified push/pull model, and admits a live pizza demo fails but the observable pattern still clarifies flow. Claims you cannot realistically fetch 50 most recent tweets without side effects, but composition + observables reduces surprising state and improves reasoning.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:09About the speaker
3. 2:34Traditional to modern apps
4. 3:59Programming paradigm
5. 6:07Functional programming basics
6. 8:59Pure functions and side effects
7. 11:51Function composition in JS
8. 13:36Pure functional limits
9. 15:20Reactive programming intro
10. 16:50Observables and streams
11. 18:36Observer vs iterator
12. 20:45Pull vs push strategies
13. 23:18Why functional and reactive matter
14. 24:42Takeaways and mindset shift
15. 26:30Resources and thanks

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