703: The Observer Pattern

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Wes Bos

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott give a high level overview of the observer pattern, what is the observer, what are downsides to too many observers, and more. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:42 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:16 High level overview Syntax 694: What’s Up With Angular with Mark Techson Godot Engine 03:36 What might you observe in game development? 06:50 What is the observer? 08:11 What are some downsides to too many observers? 10:17 IntersectionObserver, MutationObserver, and PerformanceObserver 12:25 ResizeObserver 13:04 What about addEventListener? @BenLesh on Callbacks being faster than observables 16:13 Signals are becoming a big thing Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday, open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,
0:07.0	CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,
0:10.0	break dancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastyest, the craziest, the craziest, the tastiest, web development
0:16.4	treats.
0:17.4	Coming in hot, here is Wes, Barracuda, Bars, and Scott, El Tor Toroloko Tolinsky.
0:25.0	Welcome to Syntax on this Monday, hasty treat.
0:30.0	We're going to be talking about a design pattern in computer programming, one that is becoming
0:36.9	more and more relevant, the more in which we see these things in our JavaScript.
0:42.2	And I'm talking about the observer pattern.
0:44.6	What the heck the observer pattern is,
0:47.2	where it comes from, and how it relates
0:49.8	to the things that we do in JavaScript.
0:53.0	My name is Scott Tlenski,
0:54.5	a developer from Denver, and with me as always is Wes,
0:59.7	boss.
1:00.8	Yeah, we've had this to talk about observer pattern and in a future episode we're going to talk about the observable both like
1:09.7	Rxjs. I know angular has a lot of observers in it and now there is a proposal to add
1:16.5	the observables to JavaScript as a native thing which is pretty nifty so this is kind of going to be like a first
1:26.1	run at sort of explaining what the observer pattern is for you as well as some of the things in JavaScript that are already using that and then we'll do
1:35.1	another episode on the proposed addition to the language.
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