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We implement the decoder for our Codable-based routing system.

Episode 349 · Mar 31 2023

We build a routing system based on the Codable protocol, starting with encoding.

Episode 348 · Mar 24 2023

We implement a rule modifier protocol that's similar to SwiftUI's view modifier protocol.

Episode 347 · Mar 17 2023

We add a simple web server to test our library from the browser and add support for async code.

Episode 346 · Mar 10 2023

We add a user-extensible environment to loop custom values through the site tree.

Episode 345 · Mar 03 2023

We add helpers to construct static and dynamic paths.

Episode 344 · Feb 24 2023

We lay the foundation for a backend library inspired by SwiftUI.

Episode 343 · Feb 17 2023

We refactor our string interpolation code to allow concatenation of multiple interpolated SQL queries.

Episode 144 · Mar 22 2019

We use Swift 5's new string interpolation API to automatically insert placeholders in SQL queries.

Episode 143 · Mar 15 2019

Using a protocol-based approach, we show how we write tests for the Swift Talk backend.

Episode 142 · Mar 08 2019

We show a refactoring of the view code in the Swift Talk backend that allows us to pass around dependencies automatically using a functional pattern.

Episode 141 · Mar 01 2019

To finish up the team member signup, we use a CSRF-validated POST request and then write a test for what we've built.

Episode 140 · Feb 22 2019

We continue working on the team member signup feature, showing how we handle sessions and perform database queries.

Episode 139 · Feb 15 2019

We show our new Swift Talk backend built on top of SwiftNIO by implementing a new team member signup feature.

Episode 138 · Feb 08 2019

We add support for arrays by implementing an unkeyed decoding container and use custom decoding logic for dates and URLs.

Episode 116 · Aug 31 2018

We implement a custom XML decoder that allows us to decode responses from an XML API using Decodable.

Episode 115 · Aug 24 2018

We're using Swift's Mirror and Decodable APIs to generate database queries for structs in our Swift Talk backend project.

Episode 114 · Aug 17 2018

We extend our libpq wrapper to handle queries with properly escaped parameters. To achieve this, we have to dive deep into Swift's unsafe pointer APIs.

Episode 50 · May 19 2017

We implement a lightweight wrapper around the libpq C library.

Episode 48 · May 05 2017

We implement a type safe and Swift-like routing infrastructure that's pretty different from the common approach of most web frameworks.

Episode 45 · Apr 14 2017

We set up our development environment using the Swift package manager and Docker.

Episode 44 · Apr 07 2017