How to make countdown timer with RxJS Observables?

Question

I'm struggling to create a countdown timer using Observables, the examples at http://reactivex.io/documentation/operators/timer.html do not seem to work. In this specific example the error related to timerInterval not being a function of the Observable returned from timer.

I have also been experimenting with other approaches and the best I've come up with is:

Observable.interval(1000).take(10).subscribe(x => console.log(x));

The problem here is it counts up from 0 to 10 and I want a countdown timer e.g. 10,9,8...0.

I've also tried this but the timer does not exist for type Observable

Observable.range(10, 0).timer(1000).subscribe(x => console.log(x));

As well as, which produces no output at all.

Observable.range(10, 0).debounceTime(1000).subscribe(x => console.log(x));

To clarify I need help with ReactiveX's RxJS implementation, not the MircoSoft version.

Answer 1

You were on the right track - your problem was that timer does not exist on the prototype (and thereby on Observable.range())but on Observable (see the RxJS docs). I.e. jsbin

const start = 10;
Rx.Observable
  .timer(100, 100) // timer(firstValueDelay, intervalBetweenValues)
  .map(i => start - i)
  .take(start + 1)
  .subscribe(i => console.log(i));

// or
Rx.Observable
  .range(0, start + 1)
  .map(i => start - i)
  .subscribe(i => console.log(i));

Answer 2

With interval, allows you to specify how long a second is

const time = 5 // 5 seconds
var timer$ = Rx.Observable.interval(1000) // 1000 = 1 second
timer$
  .take(time)
  .map((v)=>(time-1)-v) // to reach zero
  .subscribe((v)=>console.log('Countdown', v))