design-patterns

Module description

Knowing design patterns is beneficial for front-end developers for a number of reasons:

1. Efficiency: Design patterns offer tried-and-tested solutions to common problems. This reduces the time spent on problem-solving and helps developers to write code more efficiently.

2. Maintainability: Design patterns often result in organized and structured code. This makes the code easier to read, understand, and maintain, which is crucial when working on large projects or in a team setting.

3. Avoids Code Smell: Code smell is a hint that something has gone wrong somewhere in your code. Certain design patterns can help prevent this by encouraging efficient and clean code.

4. Communication: If all or most team members understand design patterns, it creates a common language that makes it easier to discuss software designs and collaborate effectively.

5. Building Better Software: Design patterns can ultimately help front-end developers to build better software. They can improve the performance, security, and efficiency of applications, resulting in a better user experience.

6. Evolving Best Practices: Design patterns represent the "best practices" in programming, distilled from years of experience from expert software developers. Understanding these patterns is a way to learn from the community’s acquired wisdom.

7. Reusable: Design patterns provide solutions that can be applied to multiple programming scenarios. Once a design pattern is learned and understood, it can be utilized across various projects.

Remember, design patterns themselves are not silver bullets and can't guarantee an optimal solution. They provide a general galley of solutions to common problems, but the real skill lies in knowing when and how to use them.

Education materials

1. Introduction to Design Patterns:

   • Software Design Pattern

2. Creational Design Patterns:

   • Factory Method
   • Abstract Factory
   • Builder
   • Singleton

3. Structural Design Patterns:

   • Adapter
   • Decorator
   • Facade
   • Proxy

4. Behavioral Design Patterns:

   • Chain of Responsibility
   • Command
   • Iterator
   • Mediator
   • Observer
   • State
   • Visitor

5. Lecture Videos:

   • Rolling Scopes School Poland. Patterns