January 2018 – Eric Blair

ReactNative Native Modules in Swift – Part 3 (details, conclusion, …)

To give a conclusion to this subject treated in Part1 and Part2, I want to go back to how native module work and how to communicate between native modules and ReactNative modules.

First, let’s talk about the .m file that enables to link native to JS thru runtime. The code was this :

#import <React/RCTBridgeModule.h>

@interface RCT_EXTERN_MODULE(MyNativeModule, NSObject)
RCT_EXTERN_METHOD(triggerJSRequest)
@end

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ReactNative Native Modules in Swift – Part 2 (ReactNative bridging)

In Part 1, we saw how to integrate ReactNative inside a Swift project using Cocoapods. Now, before starting to create a ReactNative View and integrate it into our project.

First, let’s take a quick tour of how ReactNative works.

I will not dive in depth (first because I don’t have enough expertise so far and second because it could take a complete book to make it) but at least I will reveal a little bit of the magic behind ReactNative from what I understood and read. There’s a very nice talk from Peggy Rayzis about this subject that you can watch here.

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ReactNative Native Modules in Swift – Part 1 (Install ReactNative inside a Swift project…)

So I was working on a clean architecture example in Swift based on this post and the way I implement VIPR. I was adding/implementing a simplified version of it based on the graph represented in Fig-1.

And then I decided to prove that this architecture is really decoupled and thus wanted to integrate a ReactNative View into it. Of course I was overestimated my knowledge of ReactNative because I did few small projects in ReactNative and it looked very easy (because I was not bridging to native modules…). Continue reading “ReactNative Native Modules in Swift – Part 1 (Install ReactNative inside a Swift project…)”

Help, I need to refactor, but where should I start ? (SDP to the rescue)

Of course it’s impossible to answer this question in one single post, or even in one single book (the best known book for this is the one from M.Feathers, “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” that you can buy here). In fact it’s impossible to answer this question at all as it will all depend on what is the current status of what you have to refactor and every situation is specific. But still, there are few things that can be said and that can/should be applied when it’s about refactoring. Continue reading “Help, I need to refactor, but where should I start ? (SDP to the rescue)”

From VIPER to VIP’R (VIP – pause – R) or how to eject Entity!

For this week, I want to give a clear example of the type of architecture that I’m trying to push on the projects I work on. Some of you probably already know VIPER. It tends to become a classical architecture in iOS development and in other platforms like Android. VIPER goes for :

V : View
I: Interactor
P: Presenter
E: Entitie
R: Router

It was inspired by the Onion Architecture or Clean Architecture pushed by Robert Cecil Martin, more known as Uncle Bob.

The Clean Architecture – © Robert Martin.

On the image The Clean Architecture, you can see an example of what it looks like. You see “skins”, or layers, that go from external to internal, crossing boundaries in one way and going right to the center where you find Entities. Continue reading “From VIPER to VIP’R (VIP – pause – R) or how to eject Entity!”