Tag: cocoapods
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Cocoapods Explained: Plugins
In the previous post, we talked about Podfile. In this post, we will look into CocoaPods plugins. Back in early days, very few maintainers maintain quite some features. It was difficult for them to stick to the main goals of the project given a number of features being requested. Some features definitely benefit a group of users but they don’t quite fit in the picture of a dependency manager. Instead of rejecting them, CocoaPods provided the support for plugins.
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CocoaPods Explained: Podfile
In iOS development, CocoaPods has become one of the must-know tools. In a team where CocoaPods is adopted, engineers run pod install as often as git checkout. They know how to properly set up a project with CocoaPods, declare dependencies in Podfile, and update dependencies if needed. However, some have little understanding of what happens under the hood. This prevents them from troubleshooting CocoaPods issues if occurred or extending its usage.