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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
2. Getting Started with Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 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

Understanding Structural Patterns

This chapter examines structural patterns in Kotlin, focusing on how objects are composed and arranged within larger structures. These patterns aim to simplify the interactions and relationships between different components of our system.

We will discuss how to enhance the functionality of our objects without creating complex class hierarchies. Additionally, we’ll explore methods to adapt to future changes and rectify design decisions made in the past. Furthermore, we’ll examine techniques for reducing the memory footprint of our programs.

Throughout this chapter, we will cover the following patterns:

  • Decorator
  • Adapter
  • Bridge
  • Composite
  • Facade
  • Flyweight
  • Proxy

By the end of this chapter, you will have a better understanding of how to compose your objects in a way that enables simpler extension and adaptation to various types of changes.

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