Is Reactive Programming Just Functional Programming on Steroids?

Emanuel Trandafir
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readNov 6, 2022

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Hands-on refactoring of a code snippet written in an imperative style, progressively adding functional and reactive features.

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In this article, we’ll look over a simple piece of code written in an imperative style and do our best to refactor it in a functional manner.

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Hi, I'm Emanuel Trandafir, a Java developer from Romania. I have a strong passion for clean code, software design, and unit testing.