This repository contains Rust 🦀 examples for all 23 classic GoF design patterns, and even a little more.

All examples are designed to introduce practical applicability in the Rust language. There are conceptual and real-world examples. In both cases, Rust idiomatic ways of code development and all the specifics are taken into account.

The repository is developed to be a part of the Refactoring.Guru project.

These examples have been tested with a stable rustc 1.62 (2021 edition).

All examples can be launched via the command line, using cargo as follows:

cargo run --bin adapter

Each target name can be found in Cargo.toml of each example:

[[bin]] name = "adapter" path = "main.rs"

Also, the examples contain a README.md with instructions and additional explanations.

cargo run --bin chain-of-responsibility cargo run --bin command cargo run --bin iterator cargo run --bin mediator cargo run --bin memento cargo run --bin memento-serde cargo run --bin observer cargo run --bin state cargo run --bin strategy cargo run --bin strategy-func cargo run --bin template-method cargo run --bin visitor cargo run --bin abstract-factory cargo run --bin abstract-factory-dyn cargo run --bin builder cargo run --bin factory-method-maze-game cargo run --bin factory-method-render-dialog cargo run --bin prototype cargo run --bin simple-factory cargo run --bin singleton-safe cargo run --bin singleton-lazy cargo run --bin singleton-mutex # Requires Rust 1.63 cargo run --bin singleton-once cargo run --bin singleton-logger cargo run --bin static-creation-method cargo run --bin adapter cargo run --bin bridge cargo run --bin composite cargo run --bin decorator cargo run --bin facade cargo run --bin flyweight cargo run --bin proxy

Some examples have visual output.

Flyweight	State	Command

Interestingly, in Rust:

1. Almost all structural and creational patterns can be implemented using generics, hence, static dispatch.
2. Most behavioral patterns can NOT be implemented using static dispatch, instead, they can be implemented only via dynamic dispatch.

A well-thought pattern classification fits the Rust language design perfectly as "behavior" is dynamic in nature and "structure" is static.

Some patterns are really easy to implement in Rust, mostly creational ones, e.g. Prototype, Static Creation Method.

The Mediator behavioral pattern is the hardest to implement with Rust, considering Rust's specific ownership model with strict borrow checker rules.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Authors: Alexander Fadeev (@fadeevab).