Dynamic Data VS Rx.NET

Compare Dynamic Data vs Rx.NET and see what are their differences.

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Dynamic Data Rx.NET
5 61
1,653 6,439
1.9% 1.6%
9.1 6.6
about 16 hours ago 16 days ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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Dynamic Data

Posts with mentions or reviews of Dynamic Data. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-11.
  • System.Reactive v6.0.0-preview.1 available on NuGet
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 11 Mar 2023
    Personally I learned to use rx and observables by starting to use ReactiveUI combined with DynamicData for my WPF app MVVM architecture. It was maybe not to best choice out there, but I learned to work with it and some things it allows to do is awesome.
  • A better way to work with state properties in MVVM
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 25 Apr 2022
    reminds a lot of https://github.com/reactivemarbles/DynamicData
  • Beginner MVVM + Reactive Question (C# + UniRx)
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 10 Nov 2021
    If you're trying to use reactive with MVVM, you might have a look at ReactiveUI, an MVVM toolkit designed to work with reactive extensions. Specifically in this case, you could leverage DynamicData (RXUI's preferred method of handling collections), which lets you trigger updates based on change notification from child items, among other things. I'm still relatively new to RXUI myself, but if you have any questions I can certainly try to help a bit more.

Rx.NET

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rx.NET. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
  • Patterns for consuming a throttled/rate limited external APIs?
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 20 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/dotnet/reactive has a lot of different time related extensions for "events". Maybe you'll find something for yourself, if you google for rate limiting with reactive.
  • How can you detect when a user has stopped scrolling with WPF
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 17 Apr 2023
    Install Reactive Extensions: https://github.com/dotnet/reactive
  • MVVM Question: How do you manage the interaction between Model and ViewModel?
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 3 Apr 2023
    I'd use a dedicated event bus based on Reactive Extensions or MediatR to publish domain events from your domain services. This probably doesn't solve all your ViewModel update problems as is, maybe you need to revise the granularity (maybe you can have smaller ViewModels that refresh single property that exposes the Model) and lifespan (sometimes you can create a ViewModel, make it perform it's task and then discard it completely) of your ViewModels.
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 3 Apr 2023
    Typically if you want to notify interested parties (ViewModels in case of WPF) of Model changes you'd use some kind of pub-sub mechanism like Reactive Extensions or MediatR. Your ViewModel can subscribe to an event bus of some kind (either standalone or maybe exposed by an Aggregate if you follow DDD), your domain logic (which should be located in Model layer, not in ViewModel layer: Service, Repository, DDD Aggregate or whatever you'd like to call it) will then do something useful with your Model and publish the corresponding event to the event bus.
  • Async Methods after setting a property.
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 16 Mar 2023
    If you're finding yourself in a situation where you need to turn this behavior into a pattern because there are a lot of View Models that need to execute async business logic in response to some changes, I'd go with something like MediatR or Reactive Extensions. The idea is, again, that some other, probably business-level, component listens to changes in a decoupled way (that means it doesn't subscribe directly to your View Model, but to an event bus instead). View Model publishes change events to the event bus, and business-component reacts to these events by executing the business logic.
  • System.Reactive v6.0.0-preview.1 available on NuGet
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 11 Mar 2023
    We'd really appreciate if it consumers of the library could update and provide any issues / bugs via the GitHub repo: https://github.com/dotnet/reactive/issues
  • Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional programming language?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2023
    The thing that really irks me is that the generator pattern doesn't have to be an OO-first feature. Observable streams[1] work with the same basic foundation and those are awesome for FP.

    [1]: https://reactivex.io/

  • What Are Signals?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2023
    > I’m not sure what you mean by "Rx" in this context.

    From “reactive extensions”, a proper name for a family of libraries[1] (RxJava, Rx.NET, RxJS), AFAICT one of the first attempted implementations of mature FRP ideas in the imperative world and one messy enough that it took React for anything similar to reënter the mainstream.

    Compare the enthusiastic HN reception of “Deprecating the observer pattern” in 2011[2], mostly from people who heard of FRP in the functional setting, and the vitriol it received in 2018[3], from people for whom FRP came to mean Rx (and similarly confused things like Bacon.js). It is this vitriol that I meant to preemptively redirect by the mention of FRP ≠ Rx, so if you’re not aware of this history it’s no big loss to ignore it.

    [1] https://reactivex.io/

    [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2972581

    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845341

  • I love LINQ and the Entity Framework
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 21 Oct 2022
    If you love LINQ, you'll like Rx.NET even more - iterating over events https://reaqtive.net/blog/2021/05/sequences-linq-rx-reaqtor-part-02-linq Or possibly even OData (LINQ to REST api)
  • Just “Discovered” Linq. Now Whole Program is Full of Linq.
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 5 Oct 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Dynamic Data and Rx.NET you can also consider the following projects:

RxJS - A reactive programming library for JavaScript

ObservableComputations - Cross-platform .NET library for computations whose arguments and results are objects that implement INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChanged (ObservableCollection) interfaces.

elsa-core - A .NET workflows library

duckdb - DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System

ReactiveUI - An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.

Disruptor-cpp - Port of LMAX Disruptor to C++

MediatR - Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET

language-ext - C# functional language extensions - a base class library for functional programming

redux-phoenix - Restore redux state from previous sessions like a phoenix from ashes.

UniRx - Reactive Extensions for Unity

axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js