SOLID Design Principles Tutorial Series: Ep 3 - The Open Closed Principle in Apex and JS

In this third episode of the SOLID Design Principles Tutorial Series we go over what the Open Closed Principle is and how we can actually leverage it in both Apex and JavaScript.

The SOLID Design Principles Tutorial Series Order (Subject to Change):
Episode 1 - What are the SOLID Design Principles?
Episode 2 - The Single Responsibility Principle
Episode 3 - The Open/Closed Principle
Episode 4 - The Liskov Substitution Principle
Episode 5 - The Interface Segregation Principle
Episode 6 - The Dependency Inversion Principle
Episode 7 - Building an application with SOLID Principles

Tutorial on Interfaces: https://youtu.be/d3xOEg1Rs88
Tutorial on the Factory Pattern: https://youtu.be/TAegJdt_z7c
Tutorial on the Service Layer: https://youtu.be/5tM_MHV1ypY
Tutorial on Illuminated Cloud 2 and IntelliJ: https://youtu.be/GYAQbs0Z-pc

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Table of Contents:

0:00 - Intro
0:22 - What is the Open Closed Principle?
3:32 - Why is the Open Closed Principle useful?
6:10 - Demoing the Application code we're gonna be modifying
6:55 - Looking at the current Apex code and determing why it doesn't abide by the OCP.
13:11 - Rebuilding the code to use OCP
40:15 - Demoing our application after we've rebuilt it to use OCP
46:51 - Rebuilding a JavaScript Controller to abide by the OCP
1:00:15 - Recap/Outro

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