{"id":524,"date":"2018-02-16T02:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winklix.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2018-02-16T02:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T02:18:22","slug":"conquering-reactiveswift-primitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winklix.com\/blog\/conquering-reactiveswift-primitives\/","title":{"rendered":"CONQUERING REACTIVESWIFT: PRIMITIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Winklix is an app development company<\/a> that does most of their iOS development<\/a> using Reactive Swift. There are two approaches of solving a problem in swift. First one is the imperative way and second one is the functional reactive way. Reactive Swift is taking leaps and bounds in today\u2019s world. It is getting more and more prevalent with each passing day. Let us try to understand what is all the fuzz about?<\/p>\n

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Basic building blocks of Reactive Swift<\/b><\/h3>\n

One of the best ways to manage the complexity of user interface is through reactive programming. Reactive Swift creators were focused to creating a language which is declarative, composable and flexible. The paramount feature of the Reactive Swift<\/a> is that it is an amalgamation of streams, transformation and bindings. Streams are a very familiar data structure through which you can send anything. It is decisive to listen for the stuff, otherwise you may miss it. Using the transformation, you can basically map one type of array into another type of required array. Binding is a third ingredient of Reactive Swift. Through bindings, you can bind the stuffs to things.<\/p>\n

Reactive Swift has a very basic building block structure given below which will assist you to write code in functional reactive way. These key building blocks are categorized in the following way.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/b><\/h3>\n

Our main focus is on the rapid changes over time rather than a particular state in time. These all primitive blocks are categorized under the Source category in reactive programming. Source comprises of Event, Signal, Signal Producer and Action. These key building blocks are accountable for the proliferation and occurrence of the changes in time.<\/p>\n

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  1. <\/b>Event<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    An Event is the occurrence of something. Events are the centrepiece of communication. An Event might be occurrence of an error, press of a button or receive of any information from an API. Events are of following four types<\/p>\n