Listen "#64: Real World SwiftData"
Episode Synopsis
This episode is all about SwiftData. Steve has started using it a lot lately and talks about his experience so far trying to sync a bunch of API data into a SwiftData model as well as using a Swift Actor to control write access to the data container in a thread-safe manner. There are some really useful links in the show notes this week. You'll want to bookmark them all!
## Topics Discussed:
- Introductions
- Steve’s Real World SwiftData Experience…so far
- Maintaining a local copy of server data
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftdata/maintaining-a-local-copy-of-server-data
- Practical SwiftData: Building SwiftUI Applications with Modern Approaches
- https://fatbobman.com/en/posts/practical-swiftdata-building-swiftui-applications-with-modern-approaches/
- Concurrency of SwiftData | Donny Wals
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4oCnQ0bfw
- Observable Architecture: Structural Identity | PointFree
- https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep260-observable-architecture-structural-identity
- Populating SwiftData from Server (ETag) Explained | Azam Sharp
- https://youtu.be/f_Amhej1bkM
- Tangent: Rendering HTML in SwiftUI with a WebView
- Wrap-Up & Jokes
- https://phillycocoa.org
Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.
## Topics Discussed:
- Introductions
- Steve’s Real World SwiftData Experience…so far
- Maintaining a local copy of server data
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftdata/maintaining-a-local-copy-of-server-data
- Practical SwiftData: Building SwiftUI Applications with Modern Approaches
- https://fatbobman.com/en/posts/practical-swiftdata-building-swiftui-applications-with-modern-approaches/
- Concurrency of SwiftData | Donny Wals
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4oCnQ0bfw
- Observable Architecture: Structural Identity | PointFree
- https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep260-observable-architecture-structural-identity
- Populating SwiftData from Server (ETag) Explained | Azam Sharp
- https://youtu.be/f_Amhej1bkM
- Tangent: Rendering HTML in SwiftUI with a WebView
- Wrap-Up & Jokes
- https://phillycocoa.org
Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.
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