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Design Patterns for Go

Design patterns for Go.

Patters have Summary, Example and Benefit section present as comments. The focus is to bring out the benefit of the pattern with a simple real world example.

Categorization:

• Creational: Concerns with the process of object creation.
• Structural: Deals with composition of objects.
• Behavioural: Ways in which objects interact and distribute responsibility.

Creational

• Abstract Factory
• Fluent Builder
• Classic Builder
• Factory Method
• Prototype

Structural

• Wrapper
• Adapter
• Decorator
• Bridge
• ObjectPool/Flyweight
• Proxy
• Glue
• Composite

Behavioural

• Strategy
• Template Method
• Chain Of Responsibility
• Command
• Iterator
• Mediator
• Memento
• Observer
• State
• Interpretor
• Iterator
• Walker

Contributing

make test

Feel free to create issues and pull requests to make it better and clearer for the reader.

Referrences

Previous work on this subject which helped in making this:

• Design Patterns by Gangs of Four(GOF) is a book on this.
• Go Patterns by bvwells have a lot of good simple examples.
• Refactoring Guru and GolanyByExample also have a lot of examples.
• Builder Pattern Series by Surya Reddy demostrate various styles on this pattern.
• Fluent and Classic builder pattern separates the builder pattern into two types, internet is filled with confusing articles on it. There are actually 2 different builder patterns.
• Prototype Pattern by Surya Reddy
• DudeWhoCodes uses Adapater Pattern