Let’s take a look at a few different ways to add plugin support to a type or library, and how doing so can enable a system to become a lot more decoupled and flexible.

One of the most challenging decisions that all programmers have to make on an ongoing basis is when to generalize a solution versus just keeping it tied to a specific use case. This week, let’s take a look at a way of building UIs that might allow us to strike a nice balance between those two approaches, using slots.

Protocols continue to be an integral part of Swift, both in terms of how the language itself is designed, and also in how the standard library is structured. This week, let's take a look at how we can use protocols to create multiple levels of abstraction, and increasingly specialize them to become more and more specific to each use case.

Composition is a super useful technique that lets us share code between multiple types in a more decoupled fashion. It's often posed as an alternative to subclassing, with phrases like "Composition over inheritance" - which is the idea of composing functionality from multiple individual pieces, rather than relying on an inheritance tree. This week, let's take a look at a few situations in which composition can be used with structs, classes and enums in Swift.

A very common problem when building apps for Apple's platforms is where to put common functionality that's used by many different view controllers. Rather than using a BaseViewController or relying on inheritance in some other way, let's take a look at how we can structure common functionality as child view controllers that can be used as plugins.