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Builder Design Pattern


An introduction to the Builder software design pattern along with a fancy example, which will make you go from Zero-to-Hero in no time on becoming a master Bob the Builder!

The Builder pattern is designed to provide a flexible solution to various object creation problems in OOP. We intend to separate the construction of a complex object from its representation.

Advantages

It provides control over the individual steps in the object construction process such that we can better customize object representation. This benefit really shine when we have big complicated classes.

Disadvantages

It requires a separate Builder class for each type of such complex object and it makes dependency injection harder to work with since introducing many dependencies can get things out of hand.

Also it increases code size and almost doubles the amount of memory required since almost all variables...

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