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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 covered the main objectives of the Kotlin programming language. We explored how to declare variables, understand basic data types, and handle null values using null safety. We also discussed type inference, which allows the compiler to automatically determine variable types.

We delved into controlling the flow of a program using important commands such as if, when, for, and while. Additionally, we examined the keywords used to define classes and interfaces, including class, interface, data class, and abstract class. We learned how to create new classes, implement interfaces, and utilize class inheritance.

Furthermore, we emphasized the importance of design patterns in Kotlin and discussed why they are used. This knowledge enables you to develop practical and type-safe programs in Kotlin. While there are many other aspects of the language to explore, we will cover them in future chapters as we encounter real-world applications that require their...

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