Design Patterns

2Creational Patterns

Creational patterns are patterns whose sole purpose is to facilitate the work of creating, initializing, and configuring objects and classes. They are grouped thus by the Gang of Four (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides), who are the individuals originally responsible for formalizing the accepted design patterns we use today. Basically, creational patterns are grouped thus because they create things: other classes, interface implementations, attributes, or any other structural type. They basically act as factories, builders, configuration constructs, or class initializers. These types of patterns are useful when we need to render instances of objects, store these objects, perform complex initialization ...