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Is Non-Blocking the Same as Reactive?

Is Non-Blocking the Same as Reactive?

Learn about the similarities and differences between non-blocking approaches and reactive approaches.

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It depends on whom you ask that question. “Reactive” is a generic concept describing something as being triggered by a previous action.

You could argue that programming techniques that follow a non-blocking approach are reactive programming styles because you normally use a callback function that reacts to the result. In that broad scope of the ‘reactive’ word, using a  ...