RxJS: Understanding Expand

Nicholas Jamieson
3 min readFeb 19, 2018
Photo by mhx on Flickr

RxJS has a lot of operators. Lots and lots of them.

It takes time to learn what they all do and how they can be used. Some operators are straightforward; others, less so. One operator that developers often find confusing is expand.

It doesn’t have to be confusing, though. It’s just like a delay pedal.

So what’s a delay pedal?

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Nicholas Jamieson

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