Welcome to this Design Patterns Implementation repository! This repository serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing various design patterns using real-world problem-solving scenarios. The intention of this repository is for personal study and understand of the various design patterns implementations.
Design patterns are proven solutions to recurring design problems in software development. They provide reusable and elegant solutions that help improve code organization, maintainability, and extensibility. By studying and implementing design patterns, developers can learn to write more efficient, flexible, and maintainable code.
The repository is organized into different directories, each representing a specific design pattern category. Each category contains individual directories for different design patterns. Inside each design pattern directory, you will find:
- Problem Statement: A brief explanation of the problem or scenario that the design pattern aims to address.
- Solution: A detailed implementation of the design pattern in code, along with explanations and comments.
- Benefits: Discussion on the advantages and use cases of the design pattern.
- Drawbacks: Any potential downsides or limitations of the design pattern.
- Examples: Additional code examples showcasing variations and real-world applications of the design pattern.
This repository covers a wide range of design patterns categorized as follows:
- Creational Patterns: Focus on object creation mechanisms, trying to create objects in a manner suitable to the situation.
- Structural Patterns: Deal with object composition, creating relationships between objects to form larger structures.
- Behavioral Patterns: Address how objects interact and communicate with each other.
- Clone the repository to your local machine using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/sowodev/design-patterns.git- Navigate to the specific design pattern directory you're interested in.
- Read through the problem statement to understand the context of the design pattern.
- Study the provided solution, benefits, drawbacks, and examples.
- Experiment with the code examples to gain a deeper understanding.
- Feel free to adapt and incorporate these design patterns into your own projects as needed.
Many design patterns leaves margin to opionated implemantation, so it might have differences from each others implementations, but they main concepts continue to be important to the pattern implementation. Also the implementation may vary depending on the programming language used to implement the pattern, for a deep understanding of each DP, I recommend visiting the Refactoring Guru website, from which most of the references of this repository comes from. Please be aware that each implementation may not be the best possible implementation, the intent is to just show case the patterns.
This repository is licensed under the MIT License, allowing you to freely use, modify, and distribute the code.
Happy coding and exploring the world of design patterns!
Wendell Oliveira da Silva