Tag: Server-side

Swift Server workgroup (SSWG) publishes annual update highlighting 2022 accomplishments and 2023 plans.

Workgroup highlights ecosystem growth with new libraries, migration to Swift modern concurrency model, new tools for server-side development.

2023 goals are set as follows:

• Continued focus on growing the ecosystem
• Adoption of structured concurrency
• Expand the documentation and guides
• Improve tooling

Swift Blog: SSWG 2023 Annual Update

Swift team introduces OpenAPI generator package that simplifies server and client code generation based on OpenAPI contracts.

This package was previewed during WWDC23.

Swift OpenAPI Generator could be used with different client and server transports.

GitHub: swift-openapi-generator

Apple Developer: Meet OpenAPI Generator (WWDC23)

Swift Blog: Introducing Swift OpenAPI Generator

Okay, I get it, it's weekend before the show. But why would you drop your routine? Let's go through some great technical and one fun article.

• Let's follow the hype with some ChatGPT related topics from Michal Tynior – Pitfalls of the ChatGPT and Fine-tuning OpenAI models;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides review of CI/CD concept – Continuous integration and delivery for iOS;
  
  
• Network Path Monitoring by Keith Harrison provides modern way to monitor network availability;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger shares interesting hints on debugger usage – Skip code during debugging in Xcode;
  
  
• Mastering Swift Foundation Formatter API. Basics by Majid Jabrayilov refreshes knowledge on data formatting in Swift;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers provide guidance on navigation in Composable Architecture – Navigation tools come to the Composable Architecture;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explores code sharing between server and client code in Swift – Share Swift Code between Swift On Server Vapor and Client App;
  
  
• SwiftUI: Trailing label TextField by Magnus Jensen is great example of making nice task-focused UI control;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova gives hints using compositing groups in SwiftUI – Using compositing group for unifying shapes within buttons in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira gives great overview of accessibility in SwiftUI – Preparing your App for Voice Over: Labels, Values and Hints;
  
  
• Amazing post on sophisticated debugging techniques by Bruno Rocha – Performance Trace Profiles in iOS: Debugging performance issues you can't reproduce.

And, as promised, fun one – refresh your Apple history knowledge with WWDC 2023: The Pregame Quiz by Jordan Morgan.

Get ready for WWDC23 – next week will be definitely packed with new stuff we'll be learning the whole summer!

It's already February... Well, we still have couple of interesting reads for you.

• Setup a 3D Chessboard With SwiftUI and RealityKit by Mark Lucking – nice intro into AR apps in modern era;
  
  
• Andrew Barba shares guide on Vercel, new solution allowing deployment of server-side Swift apps – Deploy server side Swift applications on Vercel;
  
  
• How to import Objective-C types as optionals or non-optionals into Swift by Natascha Fadeeva reminds developers on how to improve interoperability between Swift and Objective-C;
  
  
• Automatically run Swift code when your framework gets initialized by Marco Eidinger also finds good use of Objective-C in modern projects;
  
  
• John Sundell explains how to use scrollable views in SwiftUI – Observing the content offset of a SwiftUI ScrollView;
  
  
• Kasper Lahti covers styling in SwiftUI – Styling Components in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Xcode Simulator Directories Exploration by Antoine van der Lee is a great guide on iOS Simulator directory structure;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng provides hints on keeping widgets up to date – How to Fetch and Show Remote Data on a Widget?;
  
  
• Mastering Error Handling in SwiftUI: A Guide to Presenting Errors by Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides developers on ways to respond to errors in SwiftUI application;
  
  
• Did you ever wanted to print incoming JSON in nice formatted way – Jordan Morgan got you covered in Converting Data into a Formatted JSON Swift String;
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary series – Reasons for a Staycation Greycation and DND 21: Byte Compression for Watch Connectivity;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen provides great hints on monetization – What’s the Best Way to Monetize Kids Apps?;
  
  
• We all get and give feedbacks, good article on how to make those better – How to Write Impactful Peer Feedback by Michael Katz.

And, in case you missed it – couple of books are available for free, maybe you'll find something useful there. See you next week!

Are we server yet? page launched with references to current uses of server-side Swift,list of tools and educational materials to get started.

Developers could contribute to this page with their projects or tools.

Website: Are we server yet? (GitHub)

Swift Server Work Group releases 1.0.0 of Swift extension for Visual Studio Code.

Installation: Swift (change log)

Swift Forums: VSCode Swift v1.0.0

New iPhones are now arriving and are available in stores. So, you might have slightly less time reading on this weekend. Hopefully, you'll still have some time – we have great pack of articles for this weekend.

• Sarun W. comes up with good articles on common practices in SwiftUI – How to add button to navigation bar in SwiftUI, How to use UIViewController in SwiftUI and SwiftUI List: Basic usage;
  
  
• Editable navigation titles in SwiftUI on iOS 16 by Natalia Panferova goes into details on navigation bar customizations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains data structures and algorithms in Linked List Problem – Add Two Numbers in Swift and gets into new background task management in SwiftUI – New BackgroundTask in SwiftUI and How to Test It;
  
  
• Memory management in Combine by Natascha Fadeeva reminds on important aspects of memory management with reactive frameworks;
  
  
• Kevin Ma's Performance-Profiling Swift on Linux: Getting Started covers Swift performance aspects on Linux;
  
  
• The SwiftUI Layout Protocol – Part 2 by Javier is a continuation of Layout protocol exploration;
  
  
• Bruno Rocha does deep dive on existential types in Swift in What's the 'any' keyword? Understanding Type Erasure in Swift;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers aspects of WidgetKit in Variable WidgetBundle configuration based on conditions;
  
  
• What are Sendable and @Sendable closures in Swift? by Donny Wals covers structured concurrency aspects in modern Swift (and also small update on how to get more warnings on concurrency – Enabling Concurrency warnings in Xcode 14);
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng explains collection view techniques with SwiftUI cells – How to Refresh Cell’s Content When Using UIHostingConfiguration;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan explores new approach for dependency injection in SwiftUI – Dependency Injection with @State Variables.

And this is it for today. Grab your iPhone 14 Pro Max (in Deep Purple, presumably) and enjoy this new Dynamic Island.

Swift team announces IMAPv4 library as a part of Swift server expansion.

As part of expanding the Swift on Server ecosystem, we’re thrilled to announce the release of a new IMAPv4 parser and encoder, SwiftNIO IMAP.

Swift Blog

Swift Blog: Announcing SwiftNIO IMAP

GitHub: swift-nio-imap

It is time for another pack of great articles to read over the weekend.

• Mahdi Bahrami writes great article on practical use of Swift on Server – Advanced PostgreSQL with Vapor;
  
  
• SwiftUI Button Tutorial: Customization by Andy Pereira explores SwiftUI button customizations;
  
  
• Jesse Squires publishes article covering code sharing approaches – Sharing cross-platform code in SwiftUI apps;
  
  
• Handling Cell Interactions When Using UIHostingConfiguration in iOS 16 by Lee Kah Seng covers simple approaches on mixing UIKit and SwiftUI code in cell views;
  
  
• Keith Harrison's Unit Test Setup And Teardown explains XCTest's lifecycle methods;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides good overview on mixing async/await code with Combine in How to bridge async/await functions to Combine's Future type in Swift;
  
  
• And a great take by Sarun W. on SwiftUI gauge view – SwiftUI Gauge.

And that is it for this time. See you next week!

New guides are now available on Swift portal. Guides include environment setup, building, testing, debugging and optimizations and many other topics.

Swift.org: Swift on Server Guides

Reference: Server Guides Now on Swift.org