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Reactive Programming with Swift

By : Cecil Costa
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Reactive Programming with Swift

By: Cecil Costa

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Reactive programming helps you write applications that are more powerful and efficient. You can write more software, help more people, and create applications that scale. Reactive programming is a growing paradigm that we will help you set to work in Swift.</span></p> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="description" class="sugar_field"> Reactive Programming with Swift guides you through migrating from the traditional way of developing to the new ReactiveCocoa framework, which uses Swift as its main programming language. You will learn how to develop with this framework, debug code, create unit tests, use additional frameworks, and convert a traditional framework into a ReactiveCocoa one.</span></span></p> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="description" class="sugar_field"><span id="description" class="sugar_field"> Starting with a crash course on the fundamental concepts of Reactive programming, we’ll set you up so you’re ready to create reactive applications. We’ll then move on to topics such as Graphical events, Streaming, and Core data, which will help you dive deeper with advanced programming. The concept of switching your programming concepts from imperative to functional reactive programming will also be covered. By the end of this book, you will be able to successfully create highly functional apps using Swift.</span> </span></span></p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Reactive Programming with Swift
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction to Reactive Programming

Every day, you'll find something new to explore in terms of computer programming languages. These can be in the form of a new programming language, framework, methodology, or even a new paradigm. You can work with all of these to solve a problem or improve a development process. Reactive programming is a new paradigm that is no exception to this. The philosophy behind this new paradigm is that an application needs to focus on what to do and not how to do it. This chapter introduces what this paradigm is about, where it came from, and what ReactiveCocoa is.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • What is reactive programming?
  • The history of reactive programming
  • Paradigms – imperative versus declarative
  • What is functional programming?
  • Choosing reactive programming
  • Swift – interactive, safe, and fast
  • ReactiveCocoa extensions
  • Migrating to ReactiveCocoa
  • The future of reactive programming