Point-Free is a video series exploring advanced topics in the Swift programming language, hosted by industry experts, Brandon and Stephen.
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.
How does our SQL-based solution for persistence compare with modern SwiftData? We put things to the test by rebuilding our complex @FetchAll
query using @Model
and the @Query
macro!
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.
We show how to add iCloud synchronization to the persistence layer of an existing SQLite application by using SQLiteData. While SQLiteData’s CloudKit tools can be configured with a single line of code, one must still prepare their database schema to be compatible and durable when it comes to synchronizing across multiple devices and versions.
We round out modern search by diving into FTS5’s query syntax language. We’ll learn how it works, how to escape terms sent directly by the user, and we’ll introduce SwiftUI search tokens that can refine a query by term proximity and tags.
SQLite’s full-text search capabilities come with many bells and whistles, including support for highlighting search term matches in your UI, as well as generating snippets for where matches appear in a larger corpus. We will take these APIs for a spin and enhance our Reminders search UI.
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We cover both abstract ideas and practical concepts you can start using in your code base immediately.
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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 may be all the rage these days, but that doesn’t mean you won’t occassionally need to dip your toes into the UIKit waters. Whether it be to access some functionality not yet available in SwiftUI, or for performance reasons (UICollectionView
😍), you will eventually find yourself subclassing UIViewController
, and then the question becomes: what is the most modern way to do this?
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.
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.
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Every episode has been amazing on Pointfree, yet somehow, you've managed to make these Parser combinator episodes even better!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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!
So many concepts presented at #WWDC19 reminded me of @pointfreeco video series. 👏👏 So happy I watched it before coming to San Jose.
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.
Due to the amount of discussions that reference @pointfreeco, we added their logo as an emoji in our slack.
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.
I really love the dynamics of @pointfreeco. The dance of “this is super nice because…” “yes, BUT….”. they clearly show what’s good, what’s not so good and keep continuously improving.
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