Asyncawait

Older Swift code uses completion handlers for notifying us when some work has completed, and sooner or later you’re going to have to use it from an async function – either because you’re using a library someone else created, or because it’s one of your own functions but updating it…

Synchronous / Asynchronous Function In Synchronous function your thread is blocked and waiting for that function to be finish In Asynchronous function your thread is free to do other work when it’s done it will notify you by calling it’s completion handler OR you call function and then in return function call you at…

In this example below, we loop through an Array of userIDs to fetch information about the user. A naive approach may be to await each response one by one. ❌ The wrong and slow way ✔️ The Fast Way 🧐 How it works The fast method takes advantage of the Promise.all() method. The way it works is by fetching…

Hello dear readers, let’s start to create a network layer with the async/await in swift. One of the major new features that are being introduced in Swift 5.5 is async/await, and as part of their latest SDKs, Apple has also updated many of their built-in asynchronous APIs to take advantage…

Problem : We have an existing workflow that calls some APIs one after other. These calls need some properties. In addition we have an UI form that modifies these properties as per user input. Currently these inputs are available before starting said workflow. …

Hey there 👋 I am Dimos, a senior software engineer and software architect at arconsis. From time to time, I publish articles into the series “JavaScript with Dimos”, where I am trying to analyze a JavaScript topic and to focus on the core concepts of JavaScript. JavaScript is a single…

At WWD21 Apple announced SwiftUI would support async/await functionality and ever since it has been one of their most talked about features. Their chapter on concurrency — as well as the rest of the documentation — is bookmarked on my browser. …

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Many projects on the web need to interface with a REST API at some stage in their development. Axios is a lightweight HTTP client based on the $http service within Angular.js v1.x and is similar to the native JavaScript Fetch API. Axios is promise-based, which gives you the ability to…