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TIL: sections on my blog are small things I learned or notice during my day. I'll write it down for myself for the future and maybe it can also be helpful for others reading my blog :)
Something I noticed today: RxJS (until v7 (current stable)) has 2 implementations for the merge function which can be an operator and also a combination observer.
My use case was this (simplified for better understanding):
public observer = merge([this.form.valueChanges, this.picker.valuesUpdated$]);My expectations where: The merge observer should emit every value after each other from the this.form.valueChanges and this.picker.valuesUpdates$ observer.
The thing is, it never emits any value.
After a few researches through the documentation of RxJS I notice that there are two implementations for the merge function. It can be an observer (which I wanted) or it can be an operator (inside an observer chain/pipe).
In my case I falsely used the operator syntax instead of the observer syntax. To use the observer syntax I need to implement it like this:
public observer = merge(this.form.valueChanges, this.picker.valuesUpdated$);(Notice the missing brackets [ and ]).
But I think the team already was aware of this and the merge operator is deprecated since v7 (and will be removed in v8), replaced by the mergeWith operator.
Also: The observer syntax is only available through the import of directly import { merge } from 'rxjs' as the operator syntax is also available through the operators namespace: import { merge } from 'rxjs/operators'.
Maybe this helps some of you in the future :)