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Jan 2025
11m 19s

Episode 22 - Signals

Minko Gechev
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In this episode, we'll explore a concept called Signal that has been getting a lot of traction in JavaScript over the past few years. I'll describe a simple implementation so you can understand the internals and then see how it relates to the traditional object-oriented design pattern observer.

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