Page 16 - Design Patterns
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 04, 2025
A component that manages logic and renders HTML at the same time is barely reusable. Renderless Components and Headless Patterns in Vue.js solve this problem: the logic lives in a composable or a renderless component, and the consumer takes full ownership of the presentation via a scoped slot or template.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 03, 2025
Automatically generated factories for new objects, proxies for lazy loading of expensive services: both patterns explained together with concrete use cases and PHP 8.4.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 02, 2025
Since ES2022, static class blocks allow real, multi step initialization logic for static class fields, including access to private fields and regular error handling. This article shows why the feature became necessary, how the syntax works in detail, and where it makes a practical difference.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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March 31, 2025
Magento 2 · Design Patterns
Prototype & Object Pool
Pattern in Magento 2
The Prototype Pattern clones existing objects instead of re-instantiating them. The Object Pool Pattern manages a stock of reusable, expensive objects. Both patterns serve performance, and both are deeply rooted in the Magento 2 framework.
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PHP 8.4
Magento 2.4.8
The PHP clone() mechanism in detail
In PHP, the Prototype Pattern is built on a language mechanism baked right into the runtime: the clone keyword. When you call clone
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Maxim Mironjuk
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March 31, 2025
Anyone who only skims layout XML quickly gets lost in unpredictable block positions and silent merge conflicts. This handbook explains handle resolution, container versus block, referenceBlock and referenceContainer, the before/after sorting mechanics and the move element, with hands on PHP 8.4 examples for Mironsoft's Hyva stack.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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March 31, 2025
Masonry layout packs cards of different heights tightly together, subgrid precisely aligns inner elements to the track grid of a parent grid. Combined, the two techniques solve a problem that plain flexbox or a simple grid alone cannot, but only with a clear understanding of what masonry actually supports today and what it does not.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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March 27, 2025
Skeleton screens show the later layout structure before real data has loaded, considerably reducing perceived waiting time. With Tailwind CSS for shimmer animation and base shapes plus Alpine.js for a clean transition to real content, a loading state emerges that does not leave users in the dark.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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March 25, 2025
Module federation loads Vue components in the browser from separately deployed applications, instead of bundling them at build time. This enables independent deployments across team boundaries, but requires a deliberate strategy for shared dependencies, version conflicts and fallbacks when a remote is unreachable.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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March 25, 2025
PHP does not optimize away tail recursion, which is why deeply recursive functions can crash with a stack overflow on large inputs. The trampoline pattern solves this problem by turning recursion into a safe, iterative loop, without giving up the recursive programming style itself.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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March 23, 2025
conic-gradient() produces color transitions that rotate around a center point instead of running linearly or radially, making it a surprisingly precise tool for pie charts, loading animations and color wheels. Combined with custom properties updated by JavaScript, it becomes a dynamic visualization technique that needs no SVG paths and no canvas drawing logic at all.
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