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Deploy your server-side swift project to Vapor cloud

Posted on October 30, 2017
/Under Server-side swift examples

Testing Vapor cloud for hosting a server-side Swift application. Last week I watched Tanner Nelsons try!Swift NY talk about Vapor. Tanner is the person behind the Vapor framework, so I was pretty excited when someone tweeted the talk. I've been keeping my eye on server-side Swift development for about a…continue reading →

Mock network layer for unit testing in Swift

Posted on October 1, 2017
/Under How to do unit testing in Swift

Mock network layer for unit testing is an interesting topic. It will help you to make your unit tests more robust. Many times the models, wrappers and modules that you write depend on a network requests. For different responses you'll need different behaviour. How will the class recover from a…continue reading →

Validate input data using Validator in Vapor 2.0

Posted on September 20, 2017
/Under Server-side swift examples

This time I will talk about how you can validate data with Vapor 2.0. I'll go through the basics and also how you can use them inside the Model objects. It is important that the users of your service can't insert invalid data to your system. So, you must always…continue reading →

Server-side Swift update project to Vapor 2.0

Posted on August 29, 2017
/Under Server-side swift examples

Hello friends! In this blog post I'll tell you all you need to do to update your server-side-swift Vapor project from version 1.0 to 2.0. At the start of 2017 I did a small server-side-swift project named FriendService using Vapor 1.0. I wanted to develop it a bit further and add some error handling, so that it…continue reading →

Keep your UI layer clean with viewcontroller extension

Posted on June 30, 2017
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This time I wanted talk a little bit about UI layer and how to keep it clean, using extensions. extensions are an easy way to reduce the lines of code you write inside a viewcontroller. If you can identify a pattern that repeats time and time again in your viewcontrollers,…continue reading →

How to unit test ViewModel in Swift

Posted on May 9, 2017
/Under How to do unit testing in Swift, Model-View-ViewModel with swift

In this blog post, we are going to unit test the MVVM Friends mobile application. We did go through the application implementation in the previous three-part blog post series MVVM with Swift application, and now is the time to write unit tests for the application. There are few topics that will be covered today: Unit…continue reading →

Use Sequence and Collection extensions in Swift to keep your code cleaner

Posted on April 13, 2017
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In this blog post I am going to show how you can use and extension to keep your upper layer code cleaner and more readable. I attended try! Swift conference in Tokyo, Japan at the beginning of March this year, and in my opinion one of the best talks there was Soroush Khanlou's…continue reading →

MVVM(Model-View-ViewModel) with Swift application 3/3

Posted on March 21, 2017
/Under Model-View-ViewModel with swift

This is the last post of creating an MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) application with Swift series. In the first and second part, we went through the basic principles of MVVM, covered data binding pattern and also handled presenting errors to the user. At the end of the second post, we were able to…continue reading →

MVVM with Swift application 2/3

Posted on February 22, 2017
/Under Model-View-ViewModel with swift

This post continues the series of creating an MVVM application with Swift. In the first part, we managed to go through the basic principles of MVVM and also prepare our to get friends information from friendService. We were also able to create the model to which we store the data we…continue reading →

MVVM pattern with Swift application 1/3

Posted on February 14, 2017
/Under Model-View-ViewModel with swift

Why should I use MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) with Swift application? Many iOS developers use MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern when developing iOS applications. The problem is that you usually end up putting A LOT of code to your ViewController. This happens so often that the pattern is sometimes called a Massive-View-Controller. Part of the…continue reading →