Warfangled

The Strategy Pattern is more useful for programming languages that do not support first-class functions. Fortunately, JavaScript treats everything as an object, and allows for run-time object modification. That enables the use of the strategy pattern quite nicely.

Here’s a simple example for changing the behavior of an object without hard-coding the behavior options into the object itself. It allows for flexible changing of object behavior down the road, without having to refactor an entire code block.

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