Node.js High Performance

Types of patterns

Your application won't be using only the core API. In a complex application, you will be using a lot of other modules, some made by you and others that you simply downloaded. Patterns exist everywhere in your application. When you use a module and you need to create a different interface, you would be using the adapter pattern, a structural pattern. If you need to extend the module you just downloaded with a couple of functionality methods, you can use the decorator pattern, another structural pattern. When the downloaded module might need some complex information to initialize, you may want to use the Factory pattern, a creational pattern. If your application evolves and this initialization needs more flexibility, you'll be ...