🛠 X-SwiftFormat

Installation

Using Github

Using Cask

brew install --cask x-swiftformat

Usage

1) Open X-SwiftFormat

X-SwiftFormat works as Xcode Extension to format your swift code. You will need to open this once to activate it 👍

a) You case use the Preview to see the format running in the app 💪

b) You can export a configuration file ( .swift-format ) to use later 🖥

2) Enable X-SwiftFormat

Open System Preferences ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Extensions ▸ Xcode Source Editor and make sure X-SwiftFormat is selected ✅

3) Use X-SwiftFormat

Open Xcode and use the Format Swift Code command in Xcode’s Editor menu 🚀

4) Add X-SwiftFormat Shortcut

Open System Preferences ▸ PKeyboard ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts ▸ App Shortcuts, then hit the + button. Select Xcode, enter Format Swift Code and set your Shortcut.👏

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Installing Apple Swift Format (Xcode or Mint)

a) Using Xcode

if you are using Xcode 15 (Swift 5.9), you can check out and build swift-format using the following commands:

git clone -b release/5.9 https://github.com/apple/swift-format.git
cd swift-format
swift build

You should see this

Build complete! (50.00s)

👍👍👍

b) Using Mint

If you did not have Homebrew, install here

brew install mint
mint install apple/swift-format@release/5.9

You should see this

🌱 Cloning swift-format release/5.9
🌱 Resolving package
🌱 Building package
🌱 Installed swift-format release/5.9
🌱 Linked swift-format release/5.9

👍👍👍

Command Line Usage

swift-format -v
509.0.0

Command	Description
swift-format swift	Display formatted code
swift-format -i file.swift	Overwrites formatted code
swift-format -r folder	Format all files in a folder
swift-format -r -i folder	Format all files in a folder and overwrites

Check more info here: https://github.com/apple/swift-format

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I’m Rui Aureliano, iOS and macOS Engineer at Olá Brothers. We make Sip 🤓

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