Right now, one the most common design patterns – if not the most common design pattern – employed in web development is that of MVC (or Model/View/Controller), but as popular as it is, it’s not the only way that frameworks, foundations, and other libraries for are built.Case in point: WordPress uses the event-driven design pattern to power its hook system. And although design patterns are not mutually exclusive, you’re more likely to recognize that particular pattern because it’s what makes WordPress as flexible as it is.To be clear, this doesn’t mean that other patterns aren’t in use throughout its codebase (or any other application’s codebase), they just may not be as easily recognizable.On top of that, one of the things that professional developers strive for is writing maintainable code. But as a codebase ages and more and more people get their work into the codebase, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the same level of organization, clarity, and maintainability consistent as a project ages.All of the above ideas apply to WordPress whether you’re working on themes, plugins, extensions, or some other type of project.
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