Episode description
Episode description
Guest
- Donny Wals - donnywals.com
- Twitter @donnywals
- Practical Combine (25% Off Link!!!) - An introduction to Combine with real examples
Related Episodes
- Episode 33: 2020 Developer Wish List with Alex Bush
- Episode 19: WWDC 2019 - Swift UI with Jason Anderson
Related Links
- Donny's Posts on Combine
- Using Combine by Joseph Heck
- Timelane by Marin Todorov
- CombineCocoa - helpers for UIKit
- rxswift-to-combine-cheatsheet - cheatsheet for Reactive API Patterns
- Removing duplicate values from an array in Swift by Donny Wals
- Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift by Leo Dion
- Preventing strong reference cycles - using assign with self
- Heartwitch for the Apple Watch (uses Combine, SwiftUI, and Vapor)
- ReactiveX - An API for asynchronous programming with observable streams
- Promise Libraries
- Open source implementations of Apple's Combine framework
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Disney Streaming Services
- How the service has been affected by the pandemic
- Expansion to other regions
- How Donny uses Swift at Work
- Apps that DSS support
- Working from Home regularly and now
Practical Combine
- What is Functional Reactive Programming?
- What is a Publisher and it's relationship with time
- How Publishers can simplify data tasks and JSON decoding
- The advantages of functional programming
- Why it's important to keep track of Cancellables?
- How to store and remove Cancellables in your ObservedObject
- Differences between Threads and Schedulers
- Why Type-Erasure is important in Combine
Lifecycle of a Stream
- Sink vs. Assign
- Differences between Combine and other Reactive Programming
- Differences between Combine and MVC
- Differences between Combine and Promises
- Builtin Publishers with Notifications, Timers, and Data Tasks
- How to work with Delegates and Callbacks
- When to use @Published vs PassthroughSubject vs CurrentSubject
- How easy is it to use Combine with UIKit
- How do you build your own Publisher and Subscriber
Projects and Combine
- How does Combine fit with current or future projects
- Where would Combine not be a good fit
- Is Combine production ready for new apps
- How to do Unit Testing with Combine
- How to debug with Combine
- Are there alternatives for older OSes or Linux?
Writing Practical Combine
- How Donny got started
- How he tested the idea
- What questions he asked when getting started
- Using questions to organize content
- How he got outsiders to edit and beta test the book
- What topic is Donny is interested in next?
Social Media
Email
leo@brightdigit.com
Twitter
BrightDigit - @brightdigit
Leo - @leogdion
Instagram - @brightdigit
Patreon - empowerappshow
Credits
Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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