Design Patterns (design-patterns)

Reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. Covers the Gang of Four catalog (creational, structural, behavioral) and core API design patterns such as HATEOAS, idempotency keys, webhooks, and sagas.

References:

• Refactoring.Guru: Design Patterns
• Wikipedia: Software design pattern

Tags

• Software Architecture
• Best Practices
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Software Engineering
• API Design

Contents

• rules/design-patterns-rules.yml — Selection and application rules.
• capabilities/design-patterns-capabilities.md — Capabilities the pattern catalog provides.
• vocabulary/design-patterns-vocabulary.json — Controlled vocabulary spanning GoF and API patterns.
• json-ld/design-patterns.jsonld — Linked-data description.

Timestamps

• Created: 2025-01-01
• Modified: 2026-04-28