What Are The Most Popular jQuery Plugin Patterns?

I'm writing an open-source mini-book on jQuery Plugin Development Patterns and am interested in hearing what you guys feel are the most popular plugin patterns at the moment. (If you could provide an example too when answering that would be a big plus)

There are at least 4 unique ones whic开发者_开发问答h I've identified so far, including DRY, but what others do you think are important for developers to consider?

My aim is to give people a solid set of examples and reasons why one may be more favorable than another for particular situations.

Thanks in advance!

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I like to use this Starter as my base plugin template by Doug Neiner.