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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

Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns

This chapter talks about behavioral patterns using Kotlin. Behavioral patterns deal with how things interact with each other.

We will learn how an object can change how it acts depending on the situation, how objects can talk to each other without knowing all the details, and how to go through complicated setups easily. We will also touch on functional programming in Kotlin, which makes it easier to use some of these patterns.

In this chapter, we’ll explore the following topics:

  • Strategy
  • Iterator
  • State
  • Command
  • Chain of Responsibility
  • Interpreter
  • Mediator
  • Memento
  • Visitor
  • Template Method
  • Observer

By the end of this chapter, you’ll be able to structure your code in a highly decoupled and flexible manner. From enabling dynamic changes in behavior to streamlining communication between objects, these patterns empower developers to craft resilient...

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