Practical Combine with Donny Wals - a podcast by Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit

Guest

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  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


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  CombineCocoa - helpers for UIKit


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  rxswift-to-combine-cheatsheet - cheatsheet for Reactive API Patterns


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  Removing duplicate values from an array in Swift by Donny Wals


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  Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift by Leo Dion


• Preventing strong reference cycles - using assign with self


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  Heartwitch for the Apple Watch (uses Combine, SwiftUI, and Vapor)


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  ReactiveX - An API for asynchronous programming with observable streams
  • RxSwift - Swift ReactiveX implementation
  
  


• Promise Libraries
  
  
  • PromiseKit
  
  
  • SwiftNIO
  
  
  • Google Promises
  
  
  
  


• Open source implementations of Apple's Combine framework
  
  
  • OpenCombine
  
  
  • CombineX
  
  
  
  

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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?

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