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creationalAbstract FactoryView pattern
structuralProxyView pattern
behavioralStateView pattern
Basics
Categorycreationalstructuralbehavioral
SummaryProvide an interface for creating families of related objects without specifying their concrete classes.——
IntentProvide an interface for creating families of related objects without specifying their concrete classes.Provide a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it.Allow an object to alter its behavior when its internal state changes by delegating state-specific behavior to separate state objects.
Decision factors
ProblemClient code needs to create families of related objects, but hardcoding concrete classes makes the code rigid and hard to swap.A client needs to interact with an object indirectly because the real object may be expensive, sensitive, or remote.An object behaves differently depending on its internal state, and conditional logic is becoming hard to manage.
Tradeoffs
  • Adds an extra abstraction layer.
  • Can overcomplicate simple object creation.
  • Makes family-wide swapping and consistency much easier.
  • Adds another layer of indirection
  • Can make the design more complex when the extra control is unnecessary
  • Can introduce many small classes if the state graph is large
  • State transitions may become harder to trace if spread across multiple classes
Practical fit
Languages
  • typescript
  • java
  • python
  • react
  • angular
  • csharp
  • dotnet
  • typescript
  • java
  • python
  • angular
  • react
  • react-native
  • csharp
  • dotnet
  • typescript
  • java
  • python
  • angular
  • react
  • react-native
  • csharp
  • dotnet
Platforms
  • applications
  • ui systems
  • integration layers
  • Web
  • Backend
  • Mobile
  • UI kits
  • Cross-platform systems
  • Web
  • Backend
  • Mobile
  • UI kits
  • Cross-platform systems
Integration notesAbstract Factory is especially useful when your app must produce matching sets of related objects for a theme, provider, platform, or pipeline.Proxy is useful for lazy loading, access control, caching, logging, and remote service wrappers.State is useful for workflows, media players, order lifecycles, and any domain where behavior changes as the object moves through a lifecycle.