How Deleting Swift Code Can Make You a More Valuable iOS Developer—Clean iOS Codebase Series

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How Deleting Swift Code Can Make You a More Valuable iOS Developer—Clean iOS Codebase Series

The ability to develop and maintain a clean iOS codebase is essential to becoming a remarkable iOS Developer. A simple but extremely valuable action you can take is removing unused code—mercilessly. At the same time, we meet many developers afraid of deleting code because they might need it in the future.

Today, you’ll learn two ways for retrieving deleted code from a git repository and how good practices for commits facilitate the maintenance of a clean iOS codebase.



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Why iOS Developers Feel Stuck In Their Careers & What To Do

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Why iOS Developers Feel Stuck In Their Careers & What To Do

This pattern indicates that iOS developers are looking to progress in their careers, which is fantastic! But they end up finding suboptimal solutions, such as deciding to become more “generalized” developers (constantly jumping to new technologies & frameworks).

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Decomposing Swift code into modules – Intro to modular design

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Decomposing Swift code into modules – Intro to modular design

In this episode, we zoom out from the component level view of the system created previously and we showcase how to organize it into modules.

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Composable Code Can Be Simple – Intro to dependency diagrams and composition

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Composable Code Can Be Simple – Intro to dependency diagrams and composition

In this episode, we continue exploring the dependency inversion principle and composition, while documenting our system's evolution in diagrams.

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Careful With “Singleton” Lookalikes (WAY TOO COMMON)

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Careful With “Singleton” Lookalikes (WAY TOO COMMON)

Have you ever been told that Singleton is an anti-pattern? Well, Singletons can be ok, but if you are not careful, they aren’t just an anti-pattern. THEY CAN BE DANGEROUS!

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“How do you think when writing tests?” – It’s simpler than you may think

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“How do you think when writing tests?” – It’s simpler than you may think

In this episode, we reply to an important question raised by a member of our community.

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What’s More Essential for Developers to Focus On: Result or Process?

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What’s More Essential for Developers to Focus On: Result or Process?

In this video, I'd like to ask you an important question, but before that let me tell you what we believe to be one of the best skills a software developer can master: Long-term vision.

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iOS Interview Experience: Why You Didn't Pass the iOS Technical Test

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iOS Interview Experience: Why You Didn't Pass the iOS Technical Test

At Essential Developer, we help many developers go through the iOS Interview Experience. Recently, we got this message from one of the members of our community…

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The Minimum You Should Do To Prevent Memory Leaks in Swift

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The Minimum You Should Do To Prevent Memory Leaks in Swift

In this episode, we continue the Clean Swift Tests discussion, and we demonstrate a way for preventing memory leaks through automated testing.

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XCTest + Swift: SetUp/TearDown vs Factory Methods

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XCTest + Swift: SetUp/TearDown vs Factory Methods

In this episode, we dive into `XCTestCase`’s lifecycle and show different ways for configuring your system under test.

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