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Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices Elevate your Kotlin skills with classical and modern design patterns, coroutines, and microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805127765
Length 474 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Classical Patterns FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Kotlin 3. Working with Creational Patterns 4. Understanding Structural Patterns 5. Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns 6. Section 2: Reactive and Concurrent Patterns
7. Introducing Functional Programming 8. Threads and Coroutines 9. Controlling the Data Flow 10. Designing for Concurrency 11. Section 3: Practical Application of Design Patterns
12. Idioms and Anti-Patterns 13. Practical Functional Programming with Arrow 14. Concurrent Microservices with Ktor 15. Reactive Microservices with Vert.x 16. Assessments
17. Other Book You May Enjoy
18. Index

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how structural design patterns can help us to create more flexible code that can adapt to changes with ease, sometimes even at runtime. We’ve covered how we can add functionality to an existing class with the Decorator design pattern, and we’ve explored how operator overloading can allow us to provide more intuitive syntax to common operations.

We then learned how to adapt one interface to another interface using extension methods, and we also learned how to create anonymous objects to implement an interface only once. Next, we discussed how to simplify class hierarchies using the Bridge design pattern. You should now know how to create a shortcut for a type name with typealias and also how to define efficient constants with const.

Moving on, we looked at the Composite design pattern, and we considered how it could help you to design a system that needs to treat groups of objects and regular objects in the same way. We...

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