My strategy for Strategy

Previously I already touched on the topic of design patterns. Today I want to continue this topic. Once more during my everyday work, I encountered a situation that perfectly illustrates the usage of one, and I think it's worth sharing. Classic design patterns can feel awkward when transferred directly into modern React. Many of them were designed for stateful class hierarchies, and mapping them one-to-one to hooks and functional components often produces more ceremony than value. But some patterns remain genuinely useful — especially when adapted to fit the functional style rather than forced into their original shape. The Strategy pattern is one of them. The Problem: Push Notification Fallback In our app, push notifications are critical for keeping users informed about important events in real time. But what happens when push notifications are disabled? We decided to implement a fallback: when push is off, establish a WebSocket connection through AWS Amplify Events API to receive eve