Reputation: 9360
Hello coming from C# I am struggling a bit to understand which is what when it comes to typescript
.
So a Promise
in Typescript
would be the equivalent of a C#
Task
and while in C#
I unwrap it using await
in the latter I access the data inside the context with subscribe
?
What is the relationship between Promise
and Observable
.
So far I understood that Observable
class behaves like the one in System.Reactive
but where does Promise
come in this equation?
Why do I have the toPromise
extension method defined for an Observable
? I am trying to do a parallel with C#
and you can't convert an IEnumerable
/IObservable
to a Task
.
How does that even make sense? I have a stream. Why would I await
it? There might be no ending to that stream. I would understand if you await
an element of the Observable
but why on the whole?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 509
Reputation: 15221
Promise
and Observable
are the same only with respect them both being tools for modeling async
operations.
Their main difference is that Observable
operates on stream of events, thus it has array-like operators while, on the other hand, Promise
is an one time stop when it comes to async
operations > once async
operation finishes (or fails), your Promise
is done and cannot be used anymore.
Upvotes: 3