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A milestone for Swift package documentation! 🎉
 

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ISSUE 633  October 27th 2023

 
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When we added DocC documentation hosting to the Swift Package Index, I was very happy with what we built and how easy it was for package authors to opt in to. But I also hoped that people might spend more time writing documentation if building and hosting it were only a matter of adding a couple of lines of YML in a configuration file.

I’m delighted to say that it’s becoming clear that my hope is coming true as this week as we hit a milestone of 500 packages choosing to have us build and host their documentation. 🎉 As a percentage, that’s almost 8% of the 6,300+ packages we index. Given that DocC has only been available for a little over two years and our documentation hosting for a little over a year, I’m pleased with how high that number is.

However, a more interesting number appears when you filter that by packages added to the index since we launched our DocC hosting feature. With that filter, the number rises to almost 18%! Even better, that percentage is rising over time. 📈

So, I thought I’d use today’s comment as a reminder that if you contribute to an open-source Swift package, the Swift Package Index can build and host documentation for free. I’d love to look at that number in a few months and see it rise even further.

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Breadcrumbs

We discussed this prototype from Marin Todorov on the latest episode of Swift Package Indexing, but it’s also worth recommending here. Get a bird’s eye view of all the TODO and FIXIT comments you forgot you added in your source code to finally get on top of all your tech debt. What a great idea.

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Show Callers in Xcode 15

Janak Shah noticed a feature moved in Xcode 15:

Getting Xcode to show you the places in your project which use a particular method, function or variable has long been hidden one layer deep in the context menu

I’ll take that statement and raise it. I’ve long wished Xcode had this functionality, and had no idea it was available in any version of Xcode until now! 😱

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Automerge for Swift

Talking of documentation, once you’ve read this post from Joseph Heck on CRDTs and how he has been helping out with bringing Automerge to Swift, check out the amazing documentation. I’d start with the five-minute quick start, but don’t stop there, because even the sample app has documentation. 🤯 This is remarkable work on a very interesting package.

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Combine charts to create stunning designs

What’s better than one chart? Two charts! Follow along with Danijela Vrzan and learn how to take your visualisations up a level by combining charts.

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Backport SwiftUI modifiers

I liked this very pragmatic advice from Alejandro Martinez as he considers SwiftUI version compatibility:

Remember that this code is for you. It’s likely that you are not trying to make a full featured framework for the entire world, so if you don’t need some functionality right now, just skip it. By the time you need it, you will use the native solution already.

It’s great to release packages that others can use, but it’s always worth remembering that you don’t have to.

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  Design  

 

Design Evolution: Offline Map Downloader

Thanks to David Smith for this great demonstration why you need to iterate, iterate, and iterate some more with design. 👍

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Videos from Swift Connection 2023

What a great selection of talks from Swift Connection 2023. It’s so great to see conferences return with such high quality. 👍

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