What is Facade?
A simple front door to a complex subsystem. Callers use one easy API instead of many internal types.
one call · tax, fraud, pay inside
Facade provides…
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In real work
Facade: CheckoutFacade.charge() hides tax, fraud, and payment behind one call from the UI.
In the illustration
The one button is pressed; behind the panel the tax wheel turns, the fraud scanner sweeps and the payment stamp falls in order, and a receipt slides out the front.
Put a facade in front of the six image-processing classes in your coding agent: one ImageService with resize, crop and compress that the UI calls instead of the internals.
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