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TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Theofanis Despoudis
Book Image

TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Theofanis Despoudis

Overview of this book

Design patterns are critical armor for every developer to build maintainable apps. TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices is a one-stop guide to help you learn design patterns and practices to develop scalable TypeScript applications. It will also serve as handy documentation for future maintainers. This book takes a hands-on approach to help you get up and running with the implementation of TypeScript design patterns and associated methodologies for writing testable code. You'll start by exploring the practical aspects of TypeScript 4 and its new features. The book will then take you through the traditional gang of four (GOF) design patterns in their classic and alternative form and show you how to use them in real-world development projects. Once you've got to grips with traditional design patterns, you'll advance to learning about their functional programming and reactive programming counterparts and how to couple them to deliver better and more idiomatic TypeScript code. By the end of this TypeScript book, you'll be able to efficiently recognize when and how to use the right design patterns in any practical use case and gain the confidence to work on scalable and maintainable TypeScript projects of any size.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with TypeScript 4
4
Section 2: Core Design Patterns and Concepts
8
Section 3: Advanced Concepts and Best Practices

Chapter 4: Structural Design Patterns

Structural design patterns are design patterns that help developers discover and implement more convenient ways to establish relationships between objects. They create abstractions to facilitate the cross-functional use of entities without introducing extra coupling. You will find that these patterns are widely used in the real world as they allow room for extensibility without sacrificing flexibility.

In this chapter, we will learn in depth what structural design patterns are and how you can utilize them in practice. Just like we explained the previous family of patterns, we will look at each of the structural design patterns one by one with comprehensive explanations and example use cases.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Structural design patterns
  • Adapter pattern
  • Decorator pattern
  • Façade pattern
  • Composite pattern
  • Proxy pattern
  • Bridge pattern
  • Flyweight pattern
  • ...