Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 451 pages
• Publisher: WOW! eBook (December 5, 2019)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1942878842
• ISBN-13: 978-1942878841

eBook Description:

Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift: Up to date for iOS 13, Xcode 11 & Swift 5.1

The best book to master declarative asynchronous programming with Swift using the Combine framework! The introduction of Combine into the Swift ecosystem now gives you a native way to manage asynchronous events in Swift, meaning you don’t have to rely on third-party reactive frameworks for event-driven systems.

Writing asynchronous code can be challenging, with a variety of possible interfaces to represent, perform, and consume asynchronous work – delegates, notification center, KVO, closures, etc. Juggling all of these different mechanisms can be somewhat overwhelming. Does it really have to be this hard? Not anymore!

With Apple’s introduction of the Combine framework in WWDC 2019, it is clear that Apple aims to position declarative and reactive programming in Swift as a long-term investment and a game-changer in how developers perform and compose pieces of asynchronous work, making it a must-have tool at your disposal.

The introduction of Combine as a built-in framework in Apple’s ecosystem is promising news to developers who were interested in frameworks such as RxSwift or ReactiveSwift, but didn’t want the overhead of a third-party dependency; and while experience with either of the above could be useful, it is not a prerequisite for this Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift book. You’ll learn everything from the ground up to become a true Combine master.

Combine is Apple’s framework to work with asynchronous events in a unified and reactive way that ensures your app is always up to date based on the latest state of its data.

What are these asynchronous events, you might ask? Anything that happens over time in your application can be represented by what is known as a Combine Publisher – network requests, user input, notifications, KVO, and much more. And since Combine unifies all of these different mechanisms under a single interface, this opens the door to interesting and powerful ways of composing logic and work in a declarative and universal way.

Combine is also tightly integrated throughout Apple’s SDKs. For example, the UI framework SwiftUI uses Combine to ensure your app’s views stay up to date, which makes Combine a must-have for your skillset.