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Design Patterns In TypeScript — Adapter
How to allow objects with incompatible interfaces to collaborate.
Adapter Pattern is a way to organize your code to use a third-party library to compose features of your application. This pattern is also helpful when you want to have a feature abstraction, but you are using a code that you do not have access to or can’t modify.
What is Adapter?
The authors of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software define the Adapter Pattern as:
Convert the interface of a class into another interface clients expect. Adapter lets classes work together that couldn’t otherwise because of incompatible interfaces.
In other words, the Adapter Design Pattern defines an adapter that implements an interface making calls to classes or libraries that are incompatible with the interface. In that way, we can integrate those classes or libraries following our interfaces.
How To Implement
When we are adopting the Adapter Design Pattern we usually already have the interface created to support features on a module. But sometimes we will define an interface just to implement a new feature, as we will see in the example of this article.
