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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

By : Tom Kwong
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

By: Tom Kwong

Overview of this book

Design patterns are fundamental techniques for developing reusable and maintainable code. They provide a set of proven solutions that allow developers to solve problems in software development quickly. This book will demonstrate how to leverage design patterns with real-world applications. Starting with an overview of design patterns and best practices in application design, you'll learn about some of the most fundamental Julia features such as modules, data types, functions/interfaces, and metaprogramming. You'll then get to grips with the modern Julia design patterns for building large-scale applications with a focus on performance, reusability, robustness, and maintainability. The book also covers anti-patterns and how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls in development. You'll see how traditional object-oriented patterns can be implemented differently and more effectively in Julia. Finally, you'll explore various use cases and examples, such as how expert Julia developers use design patterns in their open source packages. By the end of this Julia programming book, you'll have learned methods to improve software design, extensibility, and reusability, and be able to use design patterns efficiently to overcome common challenges in software development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Design Patterns
3
Section 2: Julia Fundamentals
7
Section 3: Implementing Design Patterns
15
Section 4: Advanced Topics

Property patterns

In this section, we will take a deep dive and learn how to enforce more granular control over the fields of an object by using the property interface. Julia's property interface allows you to provide a custom implementation for the dot notation used in field access. By overriding the standard behavior, we can apply any kind of access control and validation against the field being referenced or assigned. To illustrate this concept, we will tackle a new use case here  implementing a lazy file loader.

Introducing the lazy file loader

Suppose that we are developing a file loading facility that supports lazy loading. By lazy, we are talking about not loading a file until the content is required...