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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift Master Swift best practices to build modular applications for mobile, desktop, and server platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135565
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giordano Scalzo Giordano Scalzo
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Florent Vilmart Florent Vilmart
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Sergio De Simone Sergio De Simone
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Refreshing the Basics 2. Understanding ARC and Memory Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Diving into Foundation and the Standard Library 4. Working with Objective-C in a Mixed Code Base 5. Creational Patterns 6. Structural Patterns 7. Behavioral Patterns 8. Swift-Oriented Patterns 9. Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern 10. Model-View-ViewModel in Swift 11. Implementing Dependency Injection 12. Futures, Promises, and Reactive Programming 13. Modularize Your Apps with Swift Package Manager 14. Testing Your Code with Unit and UI Tests 15. Going Out in the Open (Source) 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using a Dependency Injection Container


As already mentioned, most people confuse the Dependency Injection pattern with the use of the DI Container. This is mainly true in other languages, such as Java, where a Framework, such as Spring, has been ubiquitous for a while. In the Swift ecosystem, DI Containers are less common, but there are a few, and it's worth having a basic idea of how they work since it could be useful in particular projects, such as an enterprise one with several developers.

Why you should use a DI Container

We have seen that Dependency Injection can be achieved by implementing the right constructor and binding the dependencies at the start of the app, without using a third-party framework.

However, sometimes using one of these containers could help to ensure a uniform architecture, which is helpful when you have a really big development team. If the container you choose is used in several apps, you can be sure that it's often more robust than an internally-developed one....

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