FileBrowser

Plain Text Editor With Document Browser.

This is a sample project I decided to publish together with the blog post with everything I learned so far about working with the file system on macOS. There are not many modern working AppKit code examples out there. It's fun to develop for the Mac, and I hope this helps someone, it always great to see more native applications out there.

Requirements

Mac running macOS 13.1 or newer
Xcode installed

Features

SwiftUI
Monitors file changes with DispatchSource
Basic text editing
Working example of how to use NSDocument
Pick a root folder and get permanent read/write access to all non-nested files inside without violating the Sandobx
No need for full disk access or permission dialogues
Conflicts resolution
Potentially compatible with UIKit

Contributions and Disclosure

This project is learning process for me, feel free to suggest changes and raise issues. I am not looking to add any new UI features, but instead interested in improving app, document, and editor models.

I can't guarantee that the code is written in the best way and bug-free.

Wants

Any improvements which utilise more of the NSDocument features, and using more higher level APIs, like NSDocumentController
iOS and iPadOS compatibility
Customisation for conflict resolution, allowing a user to update documents from disk from changes made externally. The app will possibly need a setting to change behaviour
Possibly this can be turned into a Swift Package for easier integration into larger projects
Handling a scenario when root folder is moved or renamed

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