Design patterns are blueprint solutions to common programming problems. Most of the credit for classifying and describing the design patterns goes to the “Gang of Four” - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides.
They wrote a book in 1994 titled Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
Originally the design patterns had nothing to do with JavaScript.
The Gang of Four had split all the design patterns into 3 large groups:
- Creational patterns
- Behavioral patterns
- Structural patterns
Here’s the full list.
Creational Design Patterns
- Abstract Factory
- Factory Method
- Builder
- Prototype
- Singleton
Structural Design Patterns
- Adapter
- Bridge
- Composite
- Decorator
- Facade
- Flyweight
- Proxy
Behavioral Design Patterns
- Chain of Responsibility
- Command
- Interpreter
- Iterator
- Mediator
- Memento
- Observer
- State
- Strategy
- Template Method
- Visitor