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Book manuscript for "Develop Mac Apps With a Clean Architecture and Swift"

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Exploring Mac App Development Strategies

This is the book manuscript for "Exploring Mac App Development Strategies".

Example code is on GitHub, too.

Outline

  • Introduction, and my motivation to document the process
  • Part 1: Bootstrapping
    • Getting comfortable with Swift, porting Objective-C code to recreate the problem space
    • Get Core Data and related tests running
    • Prepare the user interface in its own layer
    • Have tests in place for the app's domain
  • Part 2: Solving the actual problem
    • My first, naive take
    • Ports & Adapters-style solution
  • Part 3: Putting a Domain in Place
    • Sending Domain Events
    • Handling Errors
    • Doing real work in the background
  • Part 4: Using Core Data for Convenience
    • Using Protocols to Hide NSManagedObject Internals
    • Using Cocoa Bindings with Core Data
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
    • Interesting links
    • On Swift
    • About Objective-C API compliance-related problems

License

Creative Commons License
Develop Mac Apps With a Clean Architecture and Swift by Christian Tietze is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.