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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)

Composite

You may finish this section with a lingering feeling that this pattern is a bit awkward. That's because it has a soul mate, it's accompanying pattern, Iterator, which we'll discuss in the next chapter. When both are combined, that's where they really shine. So, if you're feeling confused, come back to this pattern after you have got acquainted with Iterator too.

Having said that, we can start analyzing this pattern. It may look a bit strange to have a Composite design pattern. After all, aren't all Structural Patterns about composing objects?

Much like in the case of the Bridge design pattern, the name may not reflect its true benefits.

Get together

Going back to our strategy game,...