Swift by Sundell - Swift by Sundell Newsletter #29

🎉 Happy new year!

While I’m certainly happy to finally leave 2020 and its many challenges behind, I must say that I’m quite proud of what I eventually managed to achieve during the year. I’m also really glad to have ended the year on a high note by completing my 200 weeks of continuous writing about Swift, and by releasing a new major version of the site — Swift by Sundell 3.0.

The pandemic might still be far from over, but despite everything, I’m really hopeful about 2021, and I have some big plans for Swift by Sundell, the Stacktrace podcast, and a few other projects that I can’t wait to tell you more about.

I wish all of you a very happy new year, and thanks so much for all of your support during 2020. I honestly don’t think that I would’ve been able to accomplish as much during the year without all of your kind comments, feedback and encouraging messages.

Here’s to a much better 2021, for all of us and for the world at large. But now, let’s get started with the recap of everything that was published on Swift by Sundell during December.

📖 Articles

From now on, articles of various lengths will be continuously published on Swift by Sundell, rather than just according to a set weekly format. These articles were published during the past month:

Observing Combine publishers in SwiftUI views

How a SwiftUI view can be directly connected to a Combine publisher, and examples of situations in which doing so can be really useful.

The lifecycle and semantics of a SwiftUI view

A look at what it means for SwiftUI to be a value-driven UI framework, and how we might need to break certain assumptions when adopting SwiftUI within our projects.

200 weeks of Swift

Wrapping up the weekly article series with three of my major overall learnings after close to four years of continuously writing about Swift.

Welcome to Swift by Sundell 3.0

Introducing the next major version of the site, and how its publishing format will change going forward.

Using multiple computed properties to form a SwiftUI view’s body

How a SwiftUI view’s body can be split up into multiple computed properties, which can be a great alternative to using separate types in certain situations.

🎧 Podcast episodes

The Swift by Sundell podcast is a bi-weekly show featuring special guests from all around the Swift community. You can find it in your podcast player of choice, for example Apple Podcasts or Overcast. These episodes were published during the past month:

87: “The SwiftUI layout system”, with Chris Eidhof

Chris Eidhof returned to the show to go on a deep dive into the SwiftUI layout system. What are the different phases involved in determining a given view’s layout, how do concepts like layout priorities and flexibility work, and what makes SwiftUI different from UIKit and AppKit in terms of layout?

88: “The 2020 Holiday Special”

On this special episode of the show, I wrapped up the 2020 season by revisiting some of the key themes and topics that were discussed on the show during the year.

😊 Until next time

That’s it for this edition! I hope you enjoyed this newsletter. I always love to hear your feedback, so feel free to either reply to this email, or contact me on Twitter @johnsundell. I read every single piece of feedback that I get, and I try to reply to as many people as I possibly can.

Thanks for reading! 🚀

- John