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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)

EventBus

This is the second time we have stumbled upon the same problem: our classes get bigger and bigger, which we would usually like to avoid as much as possible.

What if we split this creation of cats logic into a separate file yet again? Let's call it CatVerticle.kt.

But then we need a way for ServerVerticle to communicate with CatVerticle. In frameworks such as SpringBoot, you would use dependency injection for that purpose. But what about reactive frameworks?

Consumer

To solve communication problems, Vert.x uses EventBus. It's an implementation of the Observable design pattern we discussed in Chapter 4, Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns. Any verticle can send a message over the event bus, choosing...