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Scala Design Patterns

You're reading from   Scala Design Patterns Design modular, clean, and scalable applications by applying proven design patterns in Scala

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471305
Length 396 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ivan Nikolov Ivan Nikolov
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Design Patterns Out There and Setting Up Your Environment 2. Traits and Mixin Compositions FREE CHAPTER 3. Unification 4. Abstract and Self Types 5. Aspect-Oriented Programming and Components 6. Creational Design Patterns 7. Structural Design Patterns 8. Behavioral Design Patterns – Part One 9. Behavioral Design Patterns – Part Two 10. Functional Design Patterns – the Deep Theory 11. Applying What We Have Learned 12. Real-Life Applications 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Functional Design Patterns – the Deep Theory

The Scala programming language is a hybrid between a functional and object-oriented language. Most of the object-oriented design patterns are still applicable. However, in order to facilitate the full power of Scala, you also need to be aware of the purely functional aspects of it. When using the language and reading tutorials or best practices, developers will most likely notice terms such as monoids, monads, and functors appearing more often as the problems become harder or the solutions are desired to be more elegant. In this chapter, we will focus on the following functional design patterns:

  • Monoids
  • Functors
  • Monads

There are a lot of resources on the preceding topics all over the internet. The problem is that many of them are extremely theoretical and hard to understand by someone who is not really familiar with mathematics...

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