What's the best place to start with Swift modules?

ChaplainsBud · 2021-09-28T13:48:03.308Z

Hi, Swift Playgrounds and Swift Explorations have Playgrounds with APIs that I cannot use on my own.

Are there any directions on how to move from the lessons to APIs accessible outside the books? For example, I use Swift Playgrounds Shapes and can make my own project in the book, but when I want to use the same features to create my own game it does not work.

Thanks, Matt

Diggory · 2021-09-28T14:34:10.778Z

I’d say the best places to find frameworks and packages are via Apple’s documentation for their closed-source frameworks (often only available on Apple Platforms).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/

There’s also a huge range of Open Source swift packages.

To browse and search the Open Source ones, I’d recommend GitHub (you can limit your searches to the Swift Language) or there’s a site that aims to index as many packages as it can.

The Swift Package Index

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GitHub

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Good luck and have fun.

ChaplainsBud · 2021-09-28T18:51:18.898Z

Diggory:

https://github.com/search?l=Swift&q=swift&type=Repositories

Thanks!

Saklad5 · 2021-09-28T20:47:31.250Z

I highly recommend Dash.