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Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By : Alexey Soshin
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By: Alexey Soshin

Overview of this book

Design patterns enable you as a developer to speed up the development process by providing you with proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems, improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide good practices for programmers. The book begins by showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, explaining the basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns. From there, the book provides an in-depth explanation of the classical design patterns of creational, structural, and behavioral families, before heading into functional programming. It then takes you through reactive and concurrent patterns, teaching you about using streams, threads, and coroutines to write better code along the way By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how structural design patterns help us to create more flexible code that can adapt to changes with ease, sometimes even at runtime. We've covered operator overloading in Kotlin and its limitations. You should know how to create a shortcut to a type name with typealias and how to define efficient constants with const.

We've covered how delegating to another class works in Kotlin, by implementing the same interface and using the by keyword.

In addition, we covered functions that can receive an arbitrary number of arguments with vararg and lazy initialization with lazy.

In the next chapter, we'll discuss the third family of classical design patterns: behavioral patterns.