Practical Combine with Donny Wals


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Disney Streaming Services

  • How the service has been affected by the pandemic
  • Expansion to other regions
  • How Donny uses Swift at Work
  • Apps that DSS support
  • Working from Home regularly and now

Practical Combine

  • What is Functional Reactive Programming?
  • What is a Publisher and it's relationship with time
  • How Publishers can simplify data tasks and JSON decoding
  • The advantages of functional programming
  • Why it's important to keep track of Cancellables?
  • How to store and remove Cancellables in your ObservedObject
  • Differences between Threads and Schedulers
  • Why Type-Erasure is important in Combine

Lifecycle of a Stream

  • Sink vs. Assign
  • Differences between Combine and other Reactive Programming
  • Differences between Combine and MVC
  • Differences between Combine and Promises
  • Builtin Publishers with Notifications, Timers, and Data Tasks
  • How to work with Delegates and Callbacks
  • When to use @Published vs PassthroughSubject vs CurrentSubject
  • How easy is it to use Combine with UIKit
  • How do you build your own Publisher and Subscriber

Projects and Combine

  • How does Combine fit with current or future projects
  • Where would Combine not be a good fit
  • Is Combine production ready for new apps
  • How to do Unit Testing with Combine
  • How to debug with Combine
  • Are there alternatives for older OSes or Linux?

Writing Practical Combine

  • How Donny got started
  • How he tested the idea
  • What questions he asked when getting started
  • Using questions to organize content
  • How he got outsiders to edit and beta test the book
  • What topic is Donny is interested in next?

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