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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

Introduction to design patterns

Now that we have gained a better understanding of basic Kotlin syntax, we can explore what design patterns are all about.

What are design patterns?

There are several misconceptions surrounding design patterns. Some common misconceptions include:

  • Design patterns are simply missing features in a programming language.
  • Design patterns are not necessary written in dynamic languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, or Python.
  • Design patterns are only relevant to object-oriented languages.
  • Design patterns are only used in enterprise settings.

In reality, design patterns are proven solutions to common problems. They are not limited to a specific programming language, such as Java, and they are not exclusive to a particular group of languages, like the C family. Design patterns can be applied not only to software development but also to software architecture. For example, there are service-oriented architectural patterns...

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