Using 3rd party libraries in a Playground Book

[damianesteban]

I mentioned this last night on Twitter and I'm happy to work on it. I just want a bit of advice on how you think the best way to approach it would be. I was thinking integration with cocoapods.

Thoughts?

[ashfurrow]

Hmm, CocoaPods might be more than we need. Any files in the Sources directory are compiled with every page, so just dumping the files in RxSwift/Alamofire/etc into that directory should work. A good way to test this would be to:

• Render a playground book.
• Copy the files into the book's Contents/Sources/Chapters/ChapterName.playgroundchapter/Sources directory.
• See if you can access those files on the device in the chapter pages. You don't need to import anything, any public classes should just work.

This was my play for #17 anyway. If that works, then we can change the part of this tool that copies Contents.swift from the playground to the chapter; we would have it also copy any Sources directory, too.

This isn't ideal because each chapter using a library would have its own copies, but I don't think there's a better easy way to use files in both a playground and in a playground book.

Thanks a lot for looking into this! Let me know what parts of the above I can clarify.

[damianesteban]

Sounds like a plan. No thanks necessary, but you're welcome. 😀