How does DIP differ from Dependency Injection?

Aspect Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) Dependency Injection (DI)

Definitio

design principle about depending on

bstractions

technique for passing

dependencies

Goal Decouple high-level logic from low-level

details

Provide dependencies to

objects

Relation DIP motivates the need for DI DI is a way to implement DIP

Focus What to depend on (abstractions) How dependencies are supplied

✅ DIP is a design principle, while DI is a design pattern/technique to implement that

principle.