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Using The Proxy Pattern In Swift 5

Today, we'll take a closer look at the proxy design pattern. We'll get the formal definition out of the way quickly and then we'll jump into some practical examples. What Is The Proxy Pattern? The proxy pattern is a structural pattern that helps you limit access to another class. In

Rate Limiting on iOS

Whenever you enter an address into Google Maps or search for a video on YouTube, you may have noticed that the auto-complete suggestions update at regular intervals rather than with every change to the search query. When you consider the scale of these platforms, limiting requests in this manner is

Using .allSatisfy in Swift

You'll often find yourself in a position where you need to check if a particular condition applies across a collection of objects. Luckily, Swift provides the allSatisfy() method to handle just that. Let's say we want to write a function to verify that a student has completed all of the

Automatically update if let and guard let for Swift 5.7

If you've seen the WWDC What's new in Swift? [https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/110354/] video, you've likely seen the updates to the if let and guard let syntax. Prior to Swift 5.7, it was common to unwrap an Optional variable and assign to a variable with

Regex In 10 Minutes

We'll cover everything you need to know about regular expressions and some tips to help you get the most out of them in Xcode.

Improved Type Safety With SwiftGen

We'll see how we can use SwiftGen to add type-safety to our project's resources and enable us to write cleaner code.

Easier Code Review With Pre-Commit Hooks

In this article, we'll see how we can use Git hooks to establish a common set of checks and balances for our team and simplify the code review process.

Native Network Monitoring In Swift

We'll take a look at a native solution for monitoring network connectivity on iOS with Swift 5 and how to use the Network Link Conditioner.

Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5

We'll cover everything you need to know about operator overloading and creating custom operators with unique precedence and associativity behavior.

How to Test Private Variables in Swift

Let's take a look at how we can use Swift's Mirror class to allow access to a class's private properties from our testing target.