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nilbuild/design-patterns-for-humans
An ultra-simplified explanation to design patterns
A single README that walks through all 23 Gang-of-Four design patterns using plain-English analogies (Hardee's burgers, tea stalls, security doors) followed by PHP code samples. It's aimed at developers who find the standard GoF book or Wikipedia descriptions too abstract and want a plain-language first pass before the real thing.
The real-world analogy before each pattern is genuinely useful for building intuition, not just decoration. Coverage is complete — all three GoF categories, 23 patterns, consistently structured (analogy, plain-words definition, Wikipedia quote, code, when-to-use). The 'When to use?' section on nearly every pattern is the part most similar resources skip, and it's concrete rather than generic.
It's a single markdown file — no runnable code, no tests, nothing you can clone and execute; every example is copy-paste-and-hope. Despite the README claiming the PHP concepts 'are the same anyways' in other languages, there's zero validation of that for anyone working outside PHP, which is most of the target audience. Last commit is from December 2024 and the repo (despite the nilbuild org) looks like an unmaintained mirror of kamranahmedse's original — no open issues or PRs being worked, no indication of who's driving it forward. Code samples skip real PHP idioms like typed properties or readonly, so they read more like pseudocode with PHP syntax than idiomatic PHP.