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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

High-level design


This section explains the high-level design of the frontend and backend.

Frontend

Application design follows a slightly different version of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, with the addition of the Actions, Store, State, and Communication layers to simplify the controller layer of the traditional iOS application MVC pattern. All application layers are explained in the following sections.

Models

Plain old model structures. These models do not have any logic and only consist of properties. There are four types of model:

  • TodoRequest: This is a struct that is used in backend request calls and conforms to RequestProtocol
  • Todo: This is a struct that represents Todo data, and uses the Argo and Curry libraries to decode the object from JSON
  • TodoViewModel and TodosViewModel: These structs represent data and are used in views and shown to the user
  • TodoLens: These lenses modify the Todo model

All the aforementioned models are immutable value types.

Views

We have two View subclasses...