Use cases
The Prototype pattern is useful when we have an existing object and we want to create an exact copy of it. A copy of an object is usually required when we know that parts of the object will be modified but we want to keep the original object untouched. In such cases, it doesn't make sense to recreate the original object from scratch [j.mp/protpat].
Another case where Prototype comes in handy is when we want to duplicate a complex object. By duplicating a complex object, we can think of an object that is populated from a database and has references to other objects that are also populated from a database. It is a lot of effort to create an object clone by querying the database(s) multiple times again. Using Prototype for such cases is ...
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