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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

By : Florent Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, Sergio De Simone
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

By: Florent Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, Sergio De Simone

Overview of this book

Swift keeps gaining traction not only amongst Apple developers but also as a server-side language. This book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that's for new or already existing projects. You’ll begin with a quick refresher on Swift, the compiler, the standard library, and the foundation, followed by the Cocoa design patterns – the ones at the core of many cocoa libraries – to follow up with the creational, structural, and behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. You'll get acquainted with application architecture, as well as the most popular architectural design patterns, such as MVC and MVVM, and learn to use them in the context of Swift. In addition, you’ll walk through dependency injection and functional reactive programming. Special emphasis will be given to techniques to handle concurrency, including callbacks, futures and promises, and reactive programming. These techniques will help you adopt a test-driven approach to your workflow in order to use Swift Package Manager and integrate the framework into the original code base, along with Unit and UI testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build applications that are scalable, faster, and easier to maintain.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using a Dependency Injection Container


As already mentioned, most people confuse the Dependency Injection pattern with the use of the DI Container. This is mainly true in other languages, such as Java, where a Framework, such as Spring, has been ubiquitous for a while. In the Swift ecosystem, DI Containers are less common, but there are a few, and it's worth having a basic idea of how they work since it could be useful in particular projects, such as an enterprise one with several developers.

Why you should use a DI Container

We have seen that Dependency Injection can be achieved by implementing the right constructor and binding the dependencies at the start of the app, without using a third-party framework.

However, sometimes using one of these containers could help to ensure a uniform architecture, which is helpful when you have a really big development team. If the container you choose is used in several apps, you can be sure that it's often more robust than an internally-developed one....