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Facade Design Pattern

Explore how the facade design pattern helps manage complexity in software systems by offering clients a simplified interface to interact with many classes. This lesson clarifies the pattern's role in improving code readability and ease of use, and introduces its structural characteristics and related design patterns.

Overview

Suppose that we’ve written code for an application with many classes. If we develop a large-scale system while following the single responsibility and loose coupling principles, our code will likely have many classes.

But there’s one problem. Any client (a piece of code) that interacts with the system will have to interact with a lot of classes, and sometimes that can become messy. How do we handle this situation?

The facade pattern ...