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We celebrate 8 years of Point-Free with a live stream! We take our brand new

"[Point-Free Way](/the-way)" skill documents for a spin by building a Flashcards app powered by [SQLiteData](http://github.com/pointfreeco/sqlite-data), and we give a sneak peek at "Composable Architecture 2.0," a reimagining of our popular library.

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We clean up our test suite and make use of the `expectDifference` helper, for precisely describing changes to state in an exhaustive fashion. We will then rapidly add test coverage using the forthcoming "Point-Free Way" skills documents. Finally, we will achieve the seemingly impossible by writing a test against iCloud sharing!

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SQLiteData is incredibly test-friendly. We will show how to configure a test suite for your data layer, how to seed the database for testing, how to assert against this data as it changes, how to employ `expectNoDifference` for better debugging over Swift Testing's `#expect` macro, and how to control the `uuid()` function used by SQLite.

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We've extended the tour with a few bonus episodes that show how SQLiteData integrates with Xcode previews and tests! No need to painstakingly mock your persistence layer: previews actually hit the database, and the library automatically supplies a mock CloudKit sync engine so you can easily preview how iCloud sharing looks in your UI.

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We conclude our tour by adding iCloud synchronization _and_ collaborative sharing, all in

under thirty minutes! We will show how support will not require any fundamental changes to our

application, show off live synchronization across multiple devices and users, and we will use

our upcoming "Point-Free Way" skill documents to let Xcode's Coding Assistant write things for

us.

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We explore how SQLiteData gives you precise control over your data model, including larger blobs of data, by adding a photo avatar feature to our scorekeeping app. Along the way we will explore a new iOS 26 style confirmation dialogs and a SwiftUI binding trick.

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We add another feature to our SQLiteData-based app to show how the tools interact with observable models and SwiftUI view lifecycles. We'll show how the library gives you ultimate control over the precision and performance of how data is fetched and loaded in your app.

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We give a tour of our SQLiteData library, a fast and lightweight alternative to SwiftData.

We'll set up a fresh project with the package, define models and configure the database, and

even write SQL migrations with the help of Xcode's Coding Assistant.

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We round out are synchronization series with a grab bag finale. We'll explore explicit synchronization, custom logout behavior, how the library handles read-only permissions, and how you can incorporate theses permissions in your app's behavior.

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We add advanced sharing functionality to our reminders app by fetching and displaying participant information, all without hitting CloudKit servers by leveraging SQLiteData's metadata, instead. Along the way we will explore two powerful tools to simplify our app: database "views" and the `@DatabaseFunction` macro.