Pluot

At Plum we use a lot of NSAttributedString’s. This gives us much greater control over the appearance of the text.

However, NSAttributedString’s API isn’t the most lightweight and constructing a paragraph of text can add up to a reasonably sized mountain of code. It can be quite the cognitive challenge to picture what the text will end up looking like.

Introducing Pluot

Pluot is a lightweight library for constructing NSAttributedString’s.

We built Pluot with 2 aims:
1. To have a lightweight API that is easy to read.
2. To be able to set default styles; an engineer shouldn’t have to needlessly repeat themselves.

Example

To use Pluot; firstly initialise an instance passing it a list of default styles:

let pluot = Pluot(
    .font(.systemFont(ofSize: 24.0)),
    .color(.red),
    .paragraph({ (style) in
       style.alignment = .center
    })
  )

Then, to create a NSAttributedString:

// Some kind of value.
let value = 1000
// Build the string.
pluot.build(
    .string(“Hello. This is a test”),
    .space,
    .string(UUID().uuidString, [.font(.systemFont(ofSize: 24.0, weight: .bold)), .color(.blue)]),
    .if(value > 99, [
        .string(“So true”)
    ], else: [
        .string(“So false”)
    ])
  )
// => `NSAttributedString`

Check It Out!

Swift PM

dependencies: [
    .package(url: “https://github.com/withplum/Pluot", from: “0.12.0”)
]

Github

https://github.com/withplum/Pluot

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