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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
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Section 2: Core Design Patterns and Concepts
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Section 3: Advanced Concepts and Best Practices

Q&A

  1. How is Mediator different compared to the Observer pattern?

    Both patterns work in a similar manner; however, their goals are marginally different. The goal of the Mediator is to eliminate direct communication between system components. With a Mediator, you usually know the dependent structures and perform calls based on the events that it receives. With Observer, you are slightly more loosely coupled as the publisher does not identify the details of the subscriber list. Some subscribers might choose to ignore certain messages, and some may choose to respond to them.

  2. How is the Chain of Responsibility different compared to the Decorator pattern?  

    The Decorator pattern usually extends one object's behavior and does not try to block the flow of requests. With a Chain of Responsibility, you are allowed to break the flow under certain criteria.

  3. How is Visitor different compared to the Composite pattern?

    The Visitor pattern works together with the Composite...