Debugging in SwiftUI

In the olden days, the thought of your IDE being able to debug your application was unheard of – you could spend hours looking for that bug only to find it was a missing semicolon.

In this section, we'll cover the options available to us in Xcode that will help make our daily lives just a little easier. We'll start by taking a look at how to add breakpoints to our app, followed by good old-fashioned print statements.

Understanding breakpoints

Breakpoints have been around for a while now, and not just in Xcode – other IDEs such as Visual Studio make great use of breakpoints to debug applications on the fly.

In a nutshell, by adding a breakpoint at a specific line in your code, when...