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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

By : Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, De Simone
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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

4.7 (3)
By: Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, De Simone

Overview of this book

Swift keeps gaining traction not only amongst Apple developers but also as a server-side language. This book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that's for new or already existing projects. You’ll begin with a quick refresher on Swift, the compiler, the standard library, and the foundation, followed by the Cocoa design patterns – the ones at the core of many cocoa libraries – to follow up with the creational, structural, and behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. You'll get acquainted with application architecture, as well as the most popular architectural design patterns, such as MVC and MVVM, and learn to use them in the context of Swift. In addition, you’ll walk through dependency injection and functional reactive programming. Special emphasis will be given to techniques to handle concurrency, including callbacks, futures and promises, and reactive programming. These techniques will help you adopt a test-driven approach to your workflow in order to use Swift Package Manager and integrate the framework into the original code base, along with Unit and UI testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build applications that are scalable, faster, and easier to maintain.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Extracting and sharing a framework

Now that we know a little more about SPM and what it brings to developing with Xcode, it's time to rewind our story and go back to our initial aim of using SPM to break our apps down into separate, reusable modules. When you extract some code from an existing project to create a framework out of it, it is usually the case you will need to refactor the code to improve its modularity. This is the focus of the next section, while the following one will focus on creating the framework.

You may find it a bit confusing, but we should take care of differentiating between modules and modularity when using Swift. On the one hand, indeed, modules and frameworks are almost the same in Swift parlance. In Swift, in fact, modules are the representation of frameworks at the language level. Or, if you prefer, frameworks are binary entities that Swift represents...

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