About

An observer makes a observation by creating an event and passing it to a callback method of the subscriber.

The observer is also called a message broker because it dispatches the event (ie message) to the subscriber (pubsub).

The observer is used a fundamental pattern of Reactive programming

Usage

• chat - when a message is posted, all peoples in the chatroom are noticed
• data replication - when a insert happens in a database, a insert happens in a replica
• Recalculation of derived measure.
  • Excel, if you change the value of a cell, the formulas using this cell are immediately recalculated.
  • User interface: If you delete a notification, the notification count should decrease, …

Library

• Javascript: daniellmb/MinPubSub
• Redis has a native pubsub mechanism