I’m glad you’re starting by asking about a specification rather than implementation first. There are a lot of ideas floating around about what FRP is. From the very start in the early 90’s (when I was working in interactive graphics at Sun Microsystems and then Microsoft Research), it has been about two properties (a) denotative … Read more
I did not read all of it, but if you want to achieve the same as pl().then(p2).then(p3).then(console.log);, with p being function returning promises, you could do something like (example here) Rx.Observable.fromPromise(p1()) .flatMap(function(p1_result){return p2(p1_result);}) .flatMap(function(p2_result){return p3(p2_result);}) Or the more symmetric : var chainedPromises$ = Rx.Observable.just() .flatMap(p1) .flatMap(p2) .flatMap(p3); Now if you want to execute sequentially callback … Read more
If you want to get a feel for FRP, you could start with the old Fran tutorial from 1998, which has animated illustrations. For papers, start with Functional Reactive Animation and then follow up on links on the publications link on my home page and the FRP link on the Haskell wiki. Personally, I like … Read more