This hands-on, two day introductory course is for experienced Swift developers who are new to the async / await framework.
Contact us at inquiries@dimsumthinking.com to book or inquire about this course for your group, company, conference, or public event.
The async / await family includes syntax and APIs that combine to provide language level support for working with concurrency and asynchronous code.
You'll learn everything starting with when and how to use async, await, and Task. You'll use continuations to replace and wrap delegates and closure-based APIs. For multiple values over time, you'll meet AsyncSequence and AsyncStream. You'll write structured concurrency with async let and TaskGroups. We end protecting shared mutable state with actors.
You need a Mac running the latest version of Xcode. You'll create projects throughout the day.
Part I - Getting Started
Learning from Errors
Introducing Async, Await, and Task
The Main Actor
Writing Tests
What the Swift Concurrency Instrument tells us
Part II - Continuations
Replacing Delegates with Continuations
Throwing Continuations
Replacing Closure-Based APIs with Continuations
URLSession's dataTask() to data()
Part III - Streams and Sequences
NotificationCenter's Notifications
AsyncStreams
AsyncSequences
For Await In
Combine and Property Updates
Part IV - Structured Communication
AsyncLet
TaskGroups
Consuming TaskGroups
Actors
Communicating between Actors
You will find much of this content and more in the book The Curious Case of the Async Cafe available from Editors Cut.
