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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By : Ivan Nikolov
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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By: Ivan Nikolov

Overview of this book

Design patterns make developers’ lives easier by helping them write great software that is easy to maintain, runs efficiently, and is valuable to the company or people concerned. You’ll learn about the various features of Scala and will be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work. The book starts off by focusing on some of the most interesting and latest features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will be learning about IDE’s and Aspect Oriented Programming. We will be looking into different components in Scala. We will also cover the popular "Gang of Four" design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. The book ends with a practical example that demonstrates how the presented material can be combined in real-life applications. You’ll learn the necessary concepts to build enterprise-grade applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

Here, we are at the end of our journey through the Scala design patterns. As you already know, design patterns exist in order to cope with a certain limitation of a language. They also help us to structure our code in a way that makes it easy to change, use, test, and maintain. Scala is an extremely rich language, and we focused on some of its features that make it capable of achieving things that other languages might not be able to do without any extra effort and knowledge.

We looked at the different Gang of Four design patterns from the point of view of Scala—creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns. We saw that some of them are not even applicable in functional languages and that others can be approached differently. We also saw that some design patterns still remain valid and knowing them is really important for any developer.

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