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Point-Free is a video series exploring advanced topics in the Swift programming language, hosted by industry experts, Brandon and Stephen.
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We finish a sneak peek of our upcoming Structured Queries library by showing how queries built with the library can be reused and composed together, and how we can replace all of the raw queries in our application with simpler, safer query builders.
Last week we released SharingGRDB, an alternative to SwiftData powered by SQLite, but there are a few improvements we could make. Let’s take a look at some problems with the current tools before giving a sneak peek at the solution: a powerful new query building library that leverages many advanced Swift features that we will soon build from scratch.
We celebrate 7 years with a live stream! We discuss some recent updates around our popular Sharing library; open source SharingGRDB live, which is a new lightweight alternative to SwiftData that is powered by Sharing and GRDB; and we give a sneak peek of an upcoming series and library.
We close out our series on SQL query building with a library that can generate some seriously complex queries that select, join, group, aggregate, and filter data across tables. And we show how it can all play nicely with SQL strings by introducing a safe interface to SQL via a custom string interpolation.
It’s time to support one of the most complicated parts of SQL in our query building library: joins. We will design an API that is simple to use but leverages some seriously advanced language features, including type-level parameter packs.
We dive into the “relational” part of relational databases by learning how tables can reference one another, the various ways queries can join these relations together, and even how to aggregate nuanced data across these relations, all without ever hopping over to Xcode.
SwiftUI is Apple’s declarative successor to UIKit and AppKit, and provides a wonderful set of tools for building applications quickly and effectively. It also provides a wonderful opportunity to explore problems around architecture and composition.
The Swift language has grown over the years and become more and more powerful. It now boosts a comprehensive static type system (generics, existentials…), a suite of concurrency tools (actors, dynamic isolation…), and most recently even ownership capabilities (consuming, borrowing, non-copyable types…). In “Back to basics” we will focus on just one part of the language in order to uncover the deep theory behind that feature as well as provide concrete advice for writing real-world code.
Architecture is a tough problem and there’s no shortage of articles, videos and open source projects attempting to solve the problem once and for all. In this collection we systematically develop an architecture from first principles, with an eye on building something that is composable, modular, testable, and more.
If you have ever created a binding using the get:set: initializer, you may want to reconsider. Doing so can hurt SwiftUI’s ability to animate your view. Luckily there is a better way. You can leverage @dynamicMemberLookup and subscripts to derive new bindings in a way that allows SwiftUI to propertly track where the binding came from.
You may have heard that “mocks are bad” and that they cause you to test the mock rather than your application’s actual feature. That doesn’t have to be the case. It is totally fine to mock a dependency to a system that you do not control, such as the file system. You do not need to test that saving and loading with that dependency works, but you should test how your application behaves when it tries to load or save data. For example, if loading data throws an error, do you show an alert to the user?
Watch us live write a complex SQL query to load “really important reminders”, and seamlessly integrate that state in our app. The database will automatically be observed for changes so that we can re-execute our query, and the view will immediately update when the data changes.
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Every episode has been amazing on Pointfree, yet somehow, you've managed to make these Parser combinator episodes even better!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I listened to the first two episodes of @pointfreeco this weekend and it was the best presentation of FP fundamentals I've seen. Very thoughtful layout and progression of the material and motivations behind each introduced concept. Looking forward to watching the rest!
The best thing, that happened to me for a while. @mbrandonw and @stephencelis really provide a lot of new information according to #ios development and #functionalprogramming. All info could be used in real production without boring academics.
@pointfreeco ❤️: Thank you! 🧠: … The brain can’t say anything. It is blown away (🤯)!
This is surely one of the best shows for Swift folks out there! The content and explanation is at a really high bar!
Thanks @mbrandonw @stephencelis for the very pedagogical series with @pointfreeco Excited and looking forward to learn from the series
Honestly, I'm an Android developer, I write applications in Kotlin. My colleague iOS developer told me about your course. And I liked it so I decided to buy a subscription.
Their content pushes the boundary of my knowledge, and it's fun to watch!
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