Swift Dev Tips

A crowd-sourced collection of tips for Swift developers.

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Contents

• The Tips
  • Swift
    • General Swift
    • Scripting
  • Platforms
    • iOS
    • macOS
    • watchOS
    • tvOS
    • Linux
    • Vapor
    • Kitura
    • Perfect
  • Tools
    • Xcode
    • Instruments
    • Simulator
    • Terminal / CLI
    • Miscellaneous
• Got a Tip?

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The Tips

Swift

General Swift

Scripting

Platforms

iOS

macOS

watchOS

tvOS

Linux

Vapor

Kitura

Perfect

Tools

Xcode

• Easily find balancing braces and hide/show code
• Move selected lines keyboard shortcut
• Do the Derived Data Dance to solve a surprisingly large number of problems
• Open file in target editor
• Run without building
• Multiple cursors
• Delete empty line indents

Instruments

• Profile slow SwiftUI code

Simulator

Terminal / CLI

• Open an Xcode project with xed
• Open an Xcode project/workspace with open
• Create Git aliases to speed up your workflow

Miscellaneous

• Create beautiful images of source code to share
• Get formatted code to paste into presentation slides

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Got a Tip?

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