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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

iOS application development


So far, we have looked into requirements, discussed a high-level design, and developed a simple backend API. Now, we are going to develop an iOS application that will leverage the latter.

Configuration

We will start our application development using CocoaPods (https://cocoapods.org/). We can install it by executing the following command in the terminal:

sudo gem install cocoapods

Then, we will create a folder using Finder or simply execute the following command in the terminal:

mkdir Frontend

Next, we will create a Single View Application project in Xcode as shown in the following screenshot:

We are going to name it TodoApp and provide an organization name and identifier. The programming language is going to be Swift, and devices will be Universal. Now, we can close the project and go back to the terminal.

In the terminal, we will execute the following command:

cd Frontend/TodoApp 
pod init

This will create a file named Podfile. This is where we define our dependencies...