jQuery Design Patterns

The Iterator Pattern

The key concept of the Iterator Pattern is the use of a function with the single responsibility to traverse a collection and provide access to its items. This function is known as the iterator and provides a way to access the items of the collection, without exposing implementation specifics and the underlying data structure used by the collection object.

Iterators provide a level of encapsulation regarding the way the iteration occurs, decoupling the iteration over the items of a collection from the implementation logic of their consumers.

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For more information on the Single Responsibility principle, you can visit http://www.oodesign.com/single-responsibility-principle.html.

How the Iterator Pattern is used by jQuery

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