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SwiftData migrations are one of those things that feel optional… right until you ship an update and real users upgrade with real data on disk. In this post we’ll dig into: How to implement schema versions with VersionedSchema When you should introduce new schema versions When SwiftData can migrate automatically and when you’ll have to […]

In a previous post, I explained how you can make your NSManagedObject subclasses codable. This was a somewhat tedious process that involves a bunch of manual work. Specifically because the most convenient way I’ve found wasn’t all that convenient. It’s easy to forget to set your managed object context on your decoder’s user info dictionary […]

If you use Core Data or SwiftData in your apps, you might be aware that the larger and more complicated your set up becomes, the harder it is to debug. It’s at this point where you might start to get frustrated with your persistence framework and its black-box kind of implementation. You might think that […]