Investing time into developer tools and experience
summary
Compilation and iteration pain costs concrete time: measured as 25% of a workday when doing ~300 UI changes per day because each build and simulator relaunch takes tens of seconds. Concrete fixes demonstrated are using frameworks to speed builds, Injection for Xcode and a playground framework to hot‑reload UI, a file‑watcher to serve live JSON, and Sourcery to auto‑generate boilerplate; the open source tools power 30,000+ apps and Sourcery appears in ~20,000 projects.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:32Issue - Long iteration cycle
- 7:57Issue - Dependency on data
- 13:38Issue - Manual Steps
- 17:50Issue - Boilerplate and Tooling
- 22:33Summary
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