Phantom Types, Combine and How to Avoid Code Review Pitfalls

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Clamping ranges

Sometimes, especially when dealing with offsets in UIScrollViews or other, we need to clamp a certain undefined range of numbers into another defined array of numbers.

Articles

How to avoid code review pitfalls that slow your productivity down

Learn which code review pitfalls can slow your team down, so you can stay productive and getting the most value from your code reviews.

Phantom types in Swift

This week, let’s take a look at a technique that can let us leverage Swift’s type system to perform data validation at compile time.

Combine vs. RxSwift: Should you switch to Combine?

In this article, we will take a deep look at Combine and compare it to RxSwift.

Unused images and resources clean up in Xcode

Unused images can be cleaned up using several free tools like LSUnusedResources and FengNiao. Learn how to use those tools and keep your projects clean.

RxSwift to Apple’s Combine “Cheat Sheet”

Get started with Apple’s Combine with your existing RxSwift knowledge.

Hacking Hit Tests

In an average day of UIKit programming, you might subclass UIView, add some child views, override -layoutSubviews, and repeat. But on weird days, when you need to do weird things, you start to look at those other methods on UIView that you can override.

Libraries & Tools

SwiftyJSONAccelerator

MacOS app to generate Swift 5 code for models from JSON (with Codeable).

Cuckoo

Boilerplate-free mocking framework for Swift.

Other

📺 Fullscreen Xcode and Simulator

The best way to debug applications during development is to run them in simulator and the best way to run simulator is right next to Xcode in fullscreen.