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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.
We add another feature to our SQLiteData-based app to show how the tools interact with observable models and SwiftUI view lifecycles. We’ll show how the library gives you ultimate control over the precision and performance of how data is fetched and loaded in your app.
We give a tour of our SQLiteData library, a fast and lightweight alternative to SwiftData. We’ll set up a fresh project with the package, define models and configure the database, and even write SQL migrations with the help of Xcode’s Coding Assistant.
We continue our series on “modern persistence” with an important topic: “callbacks.” Callbacks are little hooks into the lifecycle of your data model so that you can be notified or take action when something changes. We will first explore the “Active Record” pattern of callbacks, popularized by Ruby on Rails, and then see how we can improve upon them.
Expert-crafted AI skill documents for building long-lasting Swift applications.
Design, test, and evolve applications using the same principles, libraries, and techniques we use every day at Point‑Free.
We celebrate 8 years of Point-Free with a live stream! We take our brand new “Point-Free Way” skill documents for a spin by building a Flashcards app powered by SQLiteData, and we give a sneak peek at “Composable Architecture 2.0,” a reimagining of our popular library.
We clean up our test suite and make use of the expectDifference helper, for precisely describing changes to state in an exhaustive fashion. We will then rapidly add test coverage using the forthcoming “Point-Free Way” skills documents. Finally, we will achieve the seemingly impossible by writing a test against iCloud sharing!
SQLiteData is incredibly test-friendly. We will show how to configure a test suite for your data layer, how to seed the database for testing, how to assert against this data as it changes, how to employ expectNoDifference for better debugging over Swift Testing’s #expect macro, and how to control the uuid() function used by SQLite.
We dissect some of the most important and interesting topics in Swift programming frequently, and deliver them straight to your inbox.
We cover both abstract ideas and practical concepts you can start using in your code base immediately.
Download a fully-functioning Swift playground from the episode so you can experiment with the concepts discussed.
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Swift 5.9 brings a powerful new feature to the language: macros. They allow you to implement new functionality into the language as if it was built directly in the language itself. However, they can be tricky to get right, and as such one needs to write an extensive test suite to make sure you have covered all of the subtle and nuanced edge cases that are possible.
What are the best, modern practices for persisting your application’s state? We explore the topic by rebuilding Apple’s Reminders app from scratch using SQLite, the most widely deployed database in all software. We will dive into many of SQL’s most powerful features, such as foreign keys, triggers, common table expressions, and more.
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.
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.
SwiftData is not capable of filtering and sorting by raw representable enum properties in models. Predicates and sort descriptors will compile just fine when referencing enum properties, but it will crash at runtime.
SwiftData is not capable of sorting by boolean properties in models. And if you try to trick SwiftData to allow it, you will encounter runtime crashes.
Thanks @mbrandonw @stephencelis for the very pedagogical series with @pointfreeco Excited and looking forward to learn from the series
I bought the annual subscription and after I watched all videos and played with the sample code and libraries I can say it was the best money I spent in the last 12 months.
Three recent @pointfreeco episodes were so interesting I stayed in the treadmill 3x as long as usual and watched them all in a row! Walking may be challenging later/tomorrow... 😮
Just finished the mini-series on enum properties by @pointfreeco! They pointed out what’s missing from enums in Swift and used SwiftSyntax to generate code to add the missing parts. Thanks for your work @stephencelis and @mbrandonw! #pointfree
We have this thing called WWTV at #PlanGrid where we mostly just listen to @mbrandonw and @stephencelis talk about functions.
Due to the amount of discussions that reference @pointfreeco, we added their logo as an emoji in our slack.
Through videos you constantly introduce ideas and patterns only to later reformulate them into more general ideas. This is awesome and helped me understand a lot of programming concepts. Well done!
Watching the key path @pointfreeco episodes, and I am like 🤯🤯🤯. Super cool
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.
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