Swift Weekly - Issue #184

Swift 5.2 is now officially released! 🎉

This release focuses on improving the developer experience:

In this article, Federico Zanetello is going to dive into how things are implemented under the hood in Swift’s new ArgumentParser.

This is Understanding Combine, a book written by Matt Neuburg. It is currently a work in progress but already very informative.

Anchor preferences are a type of view preferences provided by SwiftUI. The main goal of anchor preferences is to pass layout data like bounds, center coordinates, etc. to its parent view. Majid writes all about it in this article.

For historical reasons, the Swift Standard Library still has quite a few public global functions, and some of them are still useful to this day. Let’s take a look at functions like zip() and dump().

Error handling is awesome. Error handling is necessary. Error handling can become painful, can make you cry and can cause a lot of headaches. But you can overcome it all. Hooks in RxSwift is a great tool to leave all this pain behind. It’s powerful and wholesome.

In this 3 ½-hour live hands-on workshop, you will learn the basics of SwiftUI Combine, and then create a multipeer chat app using SwiftUI and Combine.

FetchImage makes it easy to download images using Nuke and display them in SwiftUI apps

Lint anything by combining the power of Swift & regular expressions. - Flinesoft/AnyLint

Simple and Elegant Drop down menu for iOS 🔥💥.

A swift subcommand for displaying when Swift dependencies are out of date - kiliankoe/swift-outdated

SourceKit for Safari is a browser extension for GitHub, that enables IDE features on your browser such as symbol navigator, go to definition and documentation on hover. - kishikawakatsumi/SourceKitForSafari