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JavaScript Design Patterns - Structural - Decorator

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Decorator is a structural design pattern that allows us to attach new behaviors to objects by placing them inside special wrapper objects containing them.

In the example below, we use a decorator to extend behavior in Facebook Notifications.

class Notification {
  constructor(kind) {
    this.kind = kind || "Generic";
  }

  getInfo() {
    return `I'm a ${this.kind} Notification`;
  }
}

class FacebookNotification extends Notification {
  constructor() {
    super("Facebook");
  }

  setNotification(msg) {
    this.message = msg;
  }

  getInfo() {
    return `${super.getInfo()} with the message: ${this.message}`;
  }
}

class SMSNotification extends Notification {
  constructor() {
    super("SMS");
  }

  getInfo() {
    return super.getInfo();
  }
}

export { FacebookNotification, SMSNotification };
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👉 Use this pattern when adding extensions to an object in runtime without affecting other objects.


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artydev

Very instructive :-)

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João Angelo

Hi Nhan Nguyen,
Your tips are very useful
Thanks for sharing

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Eckehard

What's the difference to inheritance?