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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift. Master Swift best practices to build modular applications for mobile, desktop, and server platforms

Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift. Master Swift best practices to build modular applications for mobile, desktop, and server platforms

Florent Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, Sergio De Simone

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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.
  • 1. Refreshing the Basics
  • 2. Understanding ARC and Memory Management
  • 3. Diving into Foundation and the Standard Library
  • 4. Working with Objective-C in a Mixed Code Base
  • 5. Creational Patterns
  • 6. Structural Patterns
  • 7. Behavioral Patterns
  • 8. Swift-Oriented Patterns
  • 9. Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern
  • 10. Model-View-ViewModel in Swift
  • 11. Implementing Dependency injection
  • 12. Futures, Promises, and Reactive Programming
  • 13. Modularize Your Apps with Swift Package Manager
  • 14. Testing Your Code with Unit and UI Tests
  • 15. Going Out in the Open (Source)
  • Title: Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift. Master Swift best practices to build modular applications for mobile, desktop, and server platforms
  • Author: Florent Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, Sergio De Simone
  • Original title: Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift. Master Swift best practices to build modular applications for mobile, desktop, and server platforms
  • ISBN: 9781789138511, 9781789138511
  • Date of issue: 2018-12-24
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15dz
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing