SmackTutorial

App tutorial from Devslopes - integrating REST , JSON, alamofire, SwiftyJSON and socket.io

I made this whilst following the Devslopes "Smack" app tutorial to learn how to correctly work with: 1)alamofire 2)sockets.io 3)swiftyJSON

This is what I have learnt as a result of writing this app:

1. Using Cocoapods to import things like SWRevealView
2. Using @IBDesignable to allow IB to show custom classes
3. Using Alamofire
4. Using SwiftyJSON to parse JSON is much quicker than native Swift
5. How to set up a spinner
6. The importance of using constants in a separate file
7. public private(set) as a shortcut to encapsulate data
8. How to use collection views
9. Using PostMan to see how to send and properly parse web requests 10)Practical uses for singletons