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Swift Functional Programming - Second Edition

By : Dr. Fatih Nayebi
Book Image

Swift Functional Programming - Second Edition

By: Dr. Fatih Nayebi

Overview of this book

Swift is a multi-paradigm programming language enabling you to tackle different problems in various ways. Understanding each paradigm and knowing when and how to utilize and combine them can lead to a better code base. Functional programming (FP) is an important paradigm that empowers us with declarative development and makes applications more suitable for testing, as well as performant and elegant. This book aims to simplify the FP paradigms, making them easily understandable and usable, by showing you how to solve many of your day-to-day development problems using Swift FP. It starts with the basics of FP, and you will go through all the core concepts of Swift and the building blocks of FP. You will also go through important aspects, such as function composition and currying, custom operator definition, monads, functors, applicative functors,memoization, lenses, algebraic data types, type erasure, functional data structures, functional reactive programming (FRP), and protocol-oriented programming(POP). You will then learn to combine those techniques to develop a fully functional iOS application from scratch
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 11. Case Study - Developing an iOS Application with FP and OOP Paradigms

In the previous chapters, we covered a variety of concepts and techniques. We started with FP paradigms and explored related topics in detail. Also, in the previous chapter, we covered other paradigms such as OOP, FRP, and POP, and mixed them together. In this chapter, we will create a simple application using those paradigms.

Most iOS applications need a backend to be able to provide advanced functionalities such as integration with other systems. In this chapter, we will create a simple backend with Swift that is going to be used as a Todo application API. Then, we will develop an iOS application that will leverage our backend and provide some essential functionality such as listing and updating Todo items coming from the backend. Also, our iOS application will be able to create new Todo items. Our iOS application development will include the FP, OOP, POP, and FRP paradigms.

This chapter will cover the following...