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Reactive currently is one of the most trendy buzzword in the technology world Reactive is a word widely used as prefix for “ System ” and “ Programming ” to describe two very different matter However as IT consultant and reactive sponsor I have had a lot of discussion about it, but essentially the main question is always the same: Q: What does mean reactive ? and immediately after: Q: Why I have to use reactive ? Even if there are a lot of professional articles that try to explain in exhaustive way the reactive system , reactive programming and/or both the questions still persist in context in which I work. I’ve explained that reactive system is not the same thing of reactive programming, moreover concerning reactive system, I’ve demystified a bit the reactive word and, as reactive manifesto states clearly, I gave focus the attention on more classic concepts of a “distributed system” based upon “message driven” architecture (ie. reactive system is an architectural style)....

The last trend, from Java to Javascript I’ve developed a lot with Java (until java 8) but lately i’m progressively, for several reasons, moving to other programming languages with a prevalence of JavaScript. Yes, this means that I’m becoming a full stack developer using, mainly, ionic/angular for front-end development and nodejs for back-end development. Use Typescript as an enhanced Javascript Really, more than works with JavaScript, I use Typescript that I consider a must-to-use for developing on javascript-aware environment/runtime. A deep dive in Typescript is not the objective of this article, for now consider typescript an enhanced JavaScript that transpile itself in pure javascript so when we’ll use the Typescript word will imply that being the scene there is javascript The Enterprise dilemma - Javascript on back-end However in my opinion Javascript / angular / nodejs is a great technology stack but, working as consultant in Enterprise projects, there is a re...