RxJS: How to Use refCount

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My previous article — Understanding the publish and share Operators — looked only briefly at the refCount method. Let’s look at it more closely here.

What does refCount do?

To recap, the basic mental model for multicasting in RxJS involves: a source observable; a subject subscribed to the source; and multiple observers subscribed to the subject. The multicast operator…