I read the difference from the article but the main points look like this.
so with tap
I can change the variables such as that if I put x=3+4
then it changes the values of variable then I can say there is one side effect.
But with map
I can change the value looping each value, isn't it?
Can you pinpoint what outstanding differences they have?
tap
RxJS tap performs side effects for every value emitted by source Observable and returns an Observable identical to the source Observable until there is no error.
map
map is a RxJS pipeable operator. map applies a given function to each element emitted by the source Observable and emits the resulting values as an Observable
A mapping function takes a thing and returns another thing. e.g. I can build a function that takes 10
and returns 11
, that takes 11
and returns 12
, etc.
const inc = n => n + 1;
Array#map
applies such mapping function to all elements of an array but "map" doesn't mean "iteration".
In RxJS, when a data is sent to the stream it goes through a series of operators:
map
operator will simply apply a function to that data and return the result.tap
operator however takes a data, apply a function to that data but returns the original data, if the function bothered to return a result, tap
just ignores it.Here's an example:
10
to stream a$
, tap
just log the value. We know that console.log
always return undefined
but that's fine because tap
simply returns its parameter.10
to stream b$
, it goes through map(inc)
which applies inc
to 10
returning 11
.const a$ = of(10).pipe(tap(n => console.log(`tap: ${n}`)));
const b$ = of(10).pipe(map(inc));
a$.subscribe(n => console.log(`n from a$: ${n}`));
b$.subscribe(n => console.log(`n from b$: ${n}`));
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/rxjs/6.5.5/rxjs.umd.min.js"></script>
<script>
const {of} = rxjs;
const {map, tap} = rxjs.operators;
const inc = n => n + 1;
</script>