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Reactive Programming with Swift 4

You're reading from   Reactive Programming with Swift 4 Build asynchronous reactive applications with easy-to-maintain and clean code using RxSwift and Xcode 9

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120211
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Navdeep Singh Navdeep Singh
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Preface 1. Migrating from Swift 3 to Swift 4 2. FRP Fundamentals, Terminology, and Basic Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Set up RxSwift and Convert a Basic Login App to its RxSwift Counterpart 4. When to Become Reactive? 5. Filter, Transform, and Simplify 6. Reduce by Combining and Filtering and Common Trade Offs 7. React to UI Events – Start Subscribing 8. RxTest and Custom Rx Extensions – Testing with Rx 9. Testing Your RxCode – Testing Asynchronous Code 10. Schedule Your Tasks, Don't Queue! 11. Subscribe to Errors and Save Your App 12. Functional and Reactive App-Architecture 13. Finish a Real-World Application 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating and subscribing to Observables

In the upcoming sections, we will work with a sample project and see how can we create and subscribe to Observables in code.

Project setup

As discussed earlier, we need to set up a workspace to work with RxSwift:

  1. Create a single view application project and name it RxBasics.
  2. Open Terminal and navigate to the project folder. Create a pod file inside your Xcode projects folder by executing the pod init command.
  3. Open the created pod file and paste the pod file's code:
# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
target 'RxBasics' do
# Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
use_frameworks...
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