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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787120211

Length 320 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

RXSwift

Concepts

Reactive Programming

Author (1):

Navdeep Singh

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Migrating from Swift 3 to Swift 4 FREE CHAPTER

2. FRP Fundamentals, Terminology, and Basic Building Blocks

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

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Index

Chapter 8. RxTest and Custom Rx Extensions – Testing with Rx

Testing your code should not be cumbersome; RxSwift provides some really helpful libraries to streamline writing tests against your Rx code. You might even have fun while writing tests in RxSwift. There are two libraries in RxSwift that we will use while writing tests in RxSwift: RxTest and RxBlocking. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

Testing in RxSwift
RxTest
RxBlocking

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Authors (1)

Singh

Singh

Navdeep Singh is a result-oriented software developer and research professional with more than 7 years of experience in both development and research positions. He strives to create software with the user in mind, creating applications with a usable and intuitive user interface experience. Navdeep spends most of his time learning about the latest trends in technology, writing blogs, playing cricket, or practicing classical Hindustani music.

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