liluxdev/frp-piano

An example of Functional Reactive Programming, by implementing a simple collaborative piano.

Simple collaborative piano made using Functional Reactive Programming

To learn more about functional reactive programming, I started making a simple collaborative piano using JavaScript/CoffeeScript. I wrote a blog post to show how Functional Reactive Programming can make the task of taking multiple event inputs and merging them into one discrete sequence of interactions really easy – a task that could otherwise be potentially complex and very unstructured/hard to read.

See full blog post

Installation and startup

Clone repo and change directory

git clone https://github.com/mikaelbr/frp-piano
cd frp-piano

Install dependencies

npm install

Install coffee-script if you don't have it

sudo npm install -g coffee-script

Compile the client side script

coffee -c public/*.coffee

Run the project by doing

npm start