What are some common design patterns found in JavaScript?
There are several common design patterns in JavaScript.
- Factory Pattern: Creating objects through a factory method separates the object instantiation process from its usage, improving code maintainability and scalability.
- Singleton Pattern ensures that a class has only one instance and provides a global access point to it.
- Observer Pattern: Defines a one-to-many dependency relationship where multiple objects are notified and automatically updated when the state of one object changes.
- The Publish/Subscribe Pattern is similar to the Observer Pattern, but it allows for decoupling between publishers and subscribers. Instead of publishers directly notifying subscribers, messages are passed through an intermediary component.
- The Strategy Pattern defines a series of algorithms, encapsulates each algorithm into a class, and makes them interchangeable.
- Adapter Pattern: It allows classes with incompatible interfaces to work together by converting the interface of one class into another interface that the client desires.
- Decorator Pattern: dynamically adding additional responsibilities to an object without changing its original class.
- Chain of Responsibility Pattern: Decouples the sender and receiver of a request, where each receiver contains a reference to the next receiver, forming a chain of responsibility.