RxJS: multicast’s Secret

Nicholas Jamieson
4 min readAug 19, 2017
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multicast has a secret. And so does publish — which wraps multicast. And it’s sometimes really useful.

The secret

The documentation for multicast and publish mentions a ConnectableObservable. A connectable observable is type of observable that waits until its connect method is called before it begins emitting notifications to subscribers. However, the multicast and publish operators…

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Nicholas Jamieson

RxJS core team member; front-end developer; mentor; speaker; open-source contributor