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title: Best practices
description: Recommended patterns for building reliable and performant Durable Objects applications.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dev-products-preview.png
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# Best practices

* [ Rules of Durable Objects ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/best-practices/rules-of-durable-objects/)
* [ Invoke methods ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/best-practices/create-durable-object-stubs-and-send-requests/)
* [ Access Durable Objects Storage ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/best-practices/access-durable-objects-storage/)
* [ Use WebSockets ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/best-practices/websockets/)
* [ Error handling ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/best-practices/error-handling/)

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