https://medium.com/@ExplosionPills/rxjs-switch-switchmap-and-other-map-operations-e8ccdfb7e5a9 is more up-to-date.
Exploring RxJS still feels like a jungle to me. Even when I think I understand something, I find out that I actually don't understand it. In my quest to truly understand it, I end up learning quite a lot more about some other topics or operations than the one I was originally trying to understand. This is generally a positive thing, but it still feels like traveling deep into a jungle to me.
Just today I was trying to learn how to use ngrx/store with ngrx/effects to use http
requests with an ngrx/store-backed app. This introduced me to the RxJS Observable
switchMap operator that I was not familiar with. The main question I came up with -- the question that I usually have when