Monday May 6, 2024
The Composable Architecture is now 4 years old! We released version 0.1.0 of the library on May 4th, 2020, and since then have had 191 contributors, 116 releases, 1,270 pull requests, 57,000 Slack messages and more than 1,200 GitHub discussions.
In the past 4 years we have had many big updates to the library, making sure to support each new major feature in Swift and SwiftUI, and do so in backwards compatible ways, including:
And even for those that cannot or do not want to use the Composable Architecture, we have split out multiple standalone libraries from it:
We feel that these libraries can be helpful building any kind of application, whether you are using the Composable Architecture or not. They help you develop features that are concise and testable.
To celebrate this new milestone, we are hosting a live stream to discuss all things app architecture. Have a question about the Composable Architecture? Want to know how it compares to other styles of building apps? Or just want to discuss the philosophy of app architecture in general? Well, we have the live stream for you!
The Q&A is already open so you can ask questions and upvote any existing questions:
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Monday Apr 29, 2024
We are releasing powerful state sharing tools in the Composable Architecture that can keep state synchronized between many features, and can persist state to external systems such as user defaults and the file system.
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Today we are announcing a brand new beta for the Composable Architecture that brings first class tools for sharing state throughout an application, and for persisting state across application launches.
Monday Jan 29, 2024
We launched Point-Free 6 years ago today! To celebrate we are announcing a live stream taking place next week, February 5th at 9am PST / 5pm GMT.
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Swift 5.9's observation tools have officially been integrated into the Composable Architecture, simplifying nearly every facet of the library. Join us for an overview, as well as a special announcement!
Tuesday Jan 9, 2024
We have back-ported Swift 5.9's observation tools to work on Apple platforms going back almost 4 years ago! Start using it today even if you cannot target iOS 17.
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Point-Free year in review: 45 episodes, 200K unique visitors, 4 new open source projects, and a whole bunch more!
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Today the Composable Architecture crossed 10,000 stars on GitHub, _and_ we are announcing a beta preview for the biggest change we have made to the Composable Architecture in its history. We are integrating Swift's Observation framework into the library, and it revolutionizes nearly every aspect of the library.
Friday Nov 17, 2023
This week was dedicated to the Macro Bonanza, where we showed how Swift's macro system allowed us to greatly simplify 4 of our popular libraries, as well as improve their ergonomics and increase their power. Join us for an overview!
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
In part 4, and the final part, of our Macro Bonanza we demonstrate how macros allow us to better design dependencies when using our popular Dependencies library. Large amounts of boilerplate code can be automatically generated for us, and the ergonomics of our dependencies can be greatly improved.
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
In part 3 of our Macro Bonanza we show how the improvements to case paths greatly simplify our SwiftUINavigation library. It allows us greatly simplify how one drives navigation from optionals and enums in SwiftUI.
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
In part 2 of our Macro Bonanza we show what macros bring to our popular library, the Composable Architecture. It can make our feature code simpler, more succint and safer!
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Macros are finally available in Swift, and to celebrate we are releasing updates to 4 of our popular libraries to greatly simplify and enhance their abilities, starting with CasePaths!
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
How can you be a good citizen in the new world of SwiftSyntax proliferation? Follow our advice to keep the greater Swift ecosystem healthy and thriving.
Tuesday Oct 3, 2023
A couple weeks after its initial release, we have an update to MacroTesting that makes it even easier to fully assert on your macros, including holistic testing of diagnostics, fix-its, and expanded source code.
Monday Sep 18, 2023
With the release of Swift 5.9 and its new macros feature, we are excited to announce a brand new open source library: Macro Testing. It includes powerful tools for writing tests for your macros.
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
We are releasing a major update to our popular SnapshotTesting library: inline snapshot testing! This allows your text-based snapshots to live right in the test source code, rather than in an external file.
Friday Jul 28, 2023
We have streamlined team invites by making it as easy as sharing a link with your colleagues.
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Swift makes it easy to write powerful, succinct async code, but how easy is it to test that code? We show how seemingly reasonable async code can be nearly impossible to test, and then how what can be done about it.
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Today we are excited to announce a brand new open source library: Concurrency Extras. It includes tools to help make your concurrent Swift code more versatile and more testable.
Tuesday May 30, 2023
We are finally releasing first-class navigation tools for the Composable Architecture after 16 episodes and 3 months of beta testing.
Monday Apr 17, 2023
As we begin to explore navigation stacks in the Composable Architecture we are releasing the second beta of our navigation tools.
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Alongside our series on navigation in the Composable Architecture we are kicking off a beta so that you can start testing these tools today.
Monday Feb 13, 2023
We are very excited to officially share a preview of what 1.0 will bring to the Composable Architecture.
Monday Feb 6, 2023
Last week we hosted our first ever livestream. In an hour and a half we discussed some of the tools that our Dependencies library comes with that we didn't have time to discuss in episodes, and we live refactored our open-source Standups app to use the new iOS 16 `NavigationStack`. We also answered 18 viewer questions, and just have 94 more left in the queue. 😅
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
We launched Point-Free 5 years ago today! There's still so much more we want to do, but we'll start with two things that many people have asked for: livestreams and a community Slack!
Friday Jan 27, 2023
A call to action: how would *you* rebuild Apple's "Scrumdinger" application? We've shown our take on modern SwiftUI, but we would love to see how you tackle the same problems. Don't like to use a observable objects for each screen? Prefer to use @StateObject instead of @ObservedObject? Want to use an architectural pattern such as VIPER? Have a different way of handling dependencies? Please show us!
Friday Jan 27, 2023
We show how the investments we made in the first 4 parts of this series of posts pays off when it comes to testing. Each decision helps make it possible to write incredibly nuanced tests that exercise many different user flows in the application.
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Learn about what dependencies are and why they wreak so much havoc in a code base, and then see what can be done to take back control over dependencies rather than let them control you.
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Learn how to best leverage optionals and enums when modeling state-driven navigation in SwiftUI.
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Learn how to make lists of data in your SwiftUI applications safer and more performant by scrapping plain arrays and embracing "identified arrays".
Monday Jan 23, 2023
We are celebrating the conclusion of our 7-part series on Modern SwiftUI by releasing a blog post every day this week, detailing an area of SwiftUI development that can be modernized. We begin by exploring ways to facilitate parent-child communication in SwiftUI in a safe and ergonomic manner.
Monday Jan 9, 2023
We are open sourcing a new dependency management system for Swift. Take control of your dependencies, don't let them control you.
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Point-Free year in review: 45 episodes, 150K visitors, dozens of open source releases, and more!
Thursday Dec 8, 2022
In time for Advent of Code, a new release of swift-parsing brings several quality-of-life improvements to Swift 5.7 users.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Navigation in SwiftUI can be complex, but it doesn't have to be that way. We are releasing a new version of our SwiftUI Navigation library that makes it easier to use NavigationStack, alerts, confirmation dialogs, and even fixes a few bugs in SwiftUI.
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Exhaustive testing is one of the most powerful features of the Composable Architecture, but it can also be cumbersome for large, highly composed features. Join us for an overview of the "why" and "how" of exhaustive testing, as well as when it breaks down, and how non-exhaustive testing can help.
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Today we are open sourcing swift-clocks, a collection of tools that make working with Swift concurrency more testable and more versatile.
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Today we are releasing the biggest update to the Composable Architecture ever, completely reimagining how features are built with the library.
Thursday Sep 8, 2022
The latest release of the Composable Architecture brings a number of performance improvements to its tools, and best of all, most of the changes came from collaboration with people in the TCA community! 🤗
Monday Aug 8, 2022
Today we are releasing the biggest update to the Composable Architecture since it's first release over 2 years ago. The library has all new concurrency tools allowing you to construct complex effects using structured concurrency, tie effect lifetimes to view lifetimes, and we accomplish all of this while keeping your code 100% testable. We think it might even be the best way to test concurrent code in SwiftUI applications. 😇
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Learn how to use Swift 5.7's new existential type super powers to encode and decode type-erased values.
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
We've added a new tool to our XCTest Dynamic Overlay library, which makes it easier to construct stronger dependencies for tests.
Monday May 2, 2022
Introducing new routing libraries that make client-side and server-side routing easy with more type safety and less fuss.
Monday Apr 11, 2022
A new release of swift-parsing brings printing capabilities to your parsers for transforming structured data back into unstructured data.
Monday Feb 14, 2022
A new release of swift-parsing that brings delightful and informative error messaging to parser failures.
Wednesday Feb 9, 2022
Today we are releasing 0.6.0 of our swift-parsing library that changes its backtracking behavior.
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Today we are releasing 0.5.0 of our swift-parsing library, which leverages result builders for creating complex parsers with a minimal amount of syntactic noise. Learn how in this week's blog post, and give the library a spin today!
Monday Jan 3, 2022
Runtime warnings in libraries are a great way to notify your users that something unexpected has happened, or that an API is being used in an incorrect manner. In this post we give an overview of some techniques that can be employed easily today, as well as discuss a technique for surfacing runtime warnings that is both very visible and unobtrusive.
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Point-Free year in review: 42 episodes, 72k visitors, 5 new open source projects, and more!
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Today we are open sourcing SwiftUI Navigation, a collection of tools for making SwiftUI navigation simpler, more ergonomic and more precise.
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Today we are excited to announce that you can now gift a Point-Free subscription to your friends, colleagues and loved ones.
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
We're celebrating the release of Xcode 13 by making all of our WWDC 2021 videos free! Explore SwiftUI's new refreshable and FocusState APIs, both in the context of vanilla SwiftUI and the Composable Architecture, and learn how to build a map-powered application from scratch using the new searchable API.
Monday Sep 6, 2021
Today we are improving the Composable Architecture's first-party support for SwiftUI bindings with a safer, even conciser syntax.
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Today we are open sourcing Custom Dump, a collection of tools for debugging, diffing, and testing your application's data structures.
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
The past 3 weeks we've shipped updates to 3 of our libraries, focused on improving the performance of your Composable Architecture applications, and more!
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Today we are open sourcing Identified Collections, a library of data structures for working with collections of identifiable elements in a performant way.
Monday Jun 14, 2021
We are adding new tools for handling enum state in the Composable Architecture, with a focus on safety and performance.
Wednesday May 12, 2021
This past month we released four completely free videos dedicated to diving into the real-world Swift code base of an iOS game we recently launched and open sourced: isowords.
Monday Mar 22, 2021
We're open sourcing a library that makes it easier to be more exhaustive in writing tests.
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
We're open sourcing the entire code base to our newly released iOS word game, isowords!
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
We are excited to release isowords to the App Store, a new word search game for your phone. Download today!
Monday Mar 8, 2021
Composable Architecture 0.16.0 comes with significant improvements to its testing capabilities for tracking down effect-related failures.
Monday Feb 1, 2021
Today we are releasing first-party support for concisely handling form data in the Composable Architecture.
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
The Composable Architecture, dependency management, parsers, Combine schedulers and more! Join us for a review of everything we accomplished in 2020!
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Today we are open sourcing Parsing, a library for turning nebulous data into well-structured data, with a focus on composition, performance, and generality.
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Today we are releasing a new version of the Composable Architecture with helpers that make working with SwiftUI alerts and action sheets a breeze.
Monday Jun 22, 2020
We are releasing our second mini-library for the Composable Architecture, which makes it easy to use Core Motion.
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Today we are open-sourcing CombineSchedulers, a library that introduces a few schedulers that makes working with Combine more testable and more versatile.
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Today we are releasing first-party support for instrumenting features built in the Composable Architecture.
Wednesday May 20, 2020
We are releasing a mini-library that makes it easy to use Core Location inside the Composable Architecture.
Tuesday May 12, 2020
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Monday May 4, 2020
Today we are releasing the Composable Architecture as an open-source library. It is a way to build applications in a consistent and understandable way, with composition, testing and ergonomics in mind.
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
After over two years and nearly 100 episodes we are finally launching episode collections on Point-Free!
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Today we're excited to announce support for referral bonuses! When friends and colleagues of yours subscribe to Point-Free with your referral link, both of you will get one month free.
Tuesday Feb 4, 2020
Today we are open sourcing CasePaths, a library that introduces the power and ergonomics of key paths to enums!
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Random number generators, parsers, SwiftUI, composable architecture and more! Join us for a review of everything we accomplished in 2019!
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Snapshot testing gives us broad test coverage on our SwiftUI views with very little up front work.
Wednesday Nov 20, 2019
Two free videos exploring Apple's new Combine framework, its core components, and how to integrate it in your code.
Thursday Nov 7, 2019
How to enrich snapshot testing strategies with additional behavior using higher-order constructions.
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Xcode 11 beta 5 has brought lots of changes to SwiftUI, and we'd like to take a moment to provide corrections to our episodes based on these changes.
Monday Apr 29, 2019
We wanted to make Swift enum data access as ergonomic as struct data access, so today we are open sourcing a code generation tool to do just that!
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Today we are open sourcing Gen: a lightweight wrapper around Swift's randomness API's that makes randomness more composable, transformable and controllable!
Tuesday Jan 8, 2019
Announcing swift-html 0.2.0: support for CocoaPods, Carthage, SnapshotTesting, and more!
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
41 episodes, 19 hours of video, 25 blog posts, 8 open source libraries, 3.8K stars, 36K visitors, and we’re just getting started?
Monday Dec 3, 2018
Today we are open sourcing SnapshotTesting 1.0: a modern, composable snapshot testing library built entirely in Swift!
Monday Oct 29, 2018
We've seen that contramap is a powerful operation, but the name isn't fantastic. We propose a much more intuitive name for this operation, and in doing so make our code much easier to read.
Tuesday Oct 9, 2018
APIs that interact with the outside world are unpredictable and make it difficult to test and simulate code paths in our apps. Existing solutions to this problem are verbose and complicated, so let's explore a simpler solution by embracing singletons and global mutation, and rejecting protocol-oriented programming and dependency injection.
Monday Oct 8, 2018
Follow along with the newest Point-Free episodes using your favorite podcast app. We now support podcast-friendly RSS feeds for viewing all of our videos.
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Let's create a random Zalgo text generator using the simple Gen type we defined in this week's episode!
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
Today we're releasing a Kitura plug-in for rendering type-safe HTML. It provides a Swift compile-time API to HTML that prevents many of the runtime errors and vulnerabilities of traditional templated HTML rendering.
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
Today we're releasing a Vapor plug-in for rendering type-safe HTML. It provides a Swift compile-time API to HTML that prevents many of the runtime errors and vulnerabilities of traditional templated HTML rendering.
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Today we are open sourcing a new library for building HTML documents in Swift. It's extensible, transformable, type-safe, and provides many benefits over templating languages.
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Today we are releasing Overture 0.3.0 with a bunch of useful zip functions.
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Today we are open sourcing Validated, a tiny functional Swift library for handling multiple errors: functionality that you don't get from throwing functions and the Result type.
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Today we solve the exercises to the third and final part of our introductory series on zip.
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Today we solve the exercises to the second part of our introductory series on zip.
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Today we solve the exercises to the first part of our introductory series on zip.
Monday Aug 6, 2018
Get 50% off your Point-Free subscription with proof of enrollment at a university or coding school.
Monday Jul 30, 2018
This week marks 6 months since our launch, and we’re making one of our most popular episodes free to the public!
Monday Jul 2, 2018
What happens when we combine Swift's conditional conformance with codability?
Monday Jun 25, 2018
Today we are open sourcing NonEmpty, a Swift library for modeling non-empty collection types. This small library can help make your code safer and more expressive with very little work.
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Let's create a type-safe interface for dealing with seconds and milliseconds in our programs. We'll use the `Tagged` type, which allows us to construct all new types in a lightweight way.
Wednesday May 30, 2018
We are making one of our early episodes, “UIKit Styling with Functions”, free to everyone today! It’s a seminal episode that sets the foundation for some later work in the Point-Free series.
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Announcing Overture 0.2.0! This release is all about setters: functions that allow us to build complex transformations out of smaller units.
Monday May 7, 2018
This week we solve the exercises from our episode on contravariance, because there were _a lot_ of them!
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Let’s look at a real world use for algebraic data types. We will refactor a data type that is used in the code on this very site so that the invalid states are unrepresentable by the compiler.
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Today we are excited to announcement launch of Point-Free Pointers, a blog to supplement our video series for all the content we couldn’t fit in. Expect to find regularly postings here that dive even deeper into functional programming, showing real world use cases and more!