We elaborate briefly on various related work at http://yang.github.io/reactive-coffee/related.html, but absolutely - there's a large body of existing work and trailblazers we liberally draw inspiration from. In the case of RxJS in particular, the styles actually feel quite different - RxJS is more about explicitly merging streams and constructing the data flow graph with some set of combinators, whereas dependencies are inferred automatically in reactive.coffee (along with a UI-building layer).

We're also strong believers that the entire stack can be architected in this way. Stay tuned! For now, check out projects like Fun, Ur/Web, and Meteor/Derby:

http://marcuswest.in/essays/fun-intro/

http://www.impredicative.com/ur/demo/

http://www.meteor.com/

http://derbyjs.com/

Facebook's recent React framework is also worth mentioning (http://facebook.github.io/react/).

A nice JS library for reactive programming is Bacon.js - https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js - it's smaller, the source code is easier to read and I found it a little easier to use.

Indeed, both are mentioned in the related work page!

If you want a better alternative to RxJs, also written in Coffescript, check out Bacon.js.

https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js