Discussion: Swift Package Manager Support

[jchitel]

I have been looking to use Flipper for some time, but all of my team's dependencies are installed via Swift Package Manager, and so far Flipper is one of only 2 dependencies we have been looking to use that do not support it (the other being the Firebase SDK, which is currently working on SPM support).

The only information I've found for SPM support for Flipper is this old issue: #187 , which received very little response at the time.

Over the past few years SPM has become more and more the first class dependency manager for iOS, and it's generally expected that all libraries/tools support it.

[passy]

That sounds reasonable to me. I'm an absolute n00b when it comes to Swift and its ecosystem, so we'd have to find someone else to take care of this. Based on the Firebase project you shared, this also looks like it could be quite involved. It would be great to hear someone's assessment of how much work it would be to set this up for Flipper.

[stale]

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[anoorally]

@passy I wanted to add Flipper to an iOS project using only Swift Package Manager but the repo does not have the package.swift file. Do you have any update on when this could be supported?

[darvelo]

Also interested in this, but sadly no time to support. 😞

[pierosifuentesp]

Same here, would be nice to have SPM support

[stale]

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[brianguertin]

Go away, stale-bot. This issue is important 🤖

[mflknr]

Hey everyone,

any news on the SPM support?

[JohannesPtaszyk]

Would love to see some work put into this.

[BergQuester]

No SPM support is an automatic non-starter for us.

[AdMeen89]

It's very important feature for modern iOS app development.
Any news about it?

[passy]

We don't have any plans for this but if someone from the community would like to take the lead or do some exploration of what that would take, we'd totally be up for it.

[JohannesPtaszyk]

@mflknr Maybe you could open a PR? :)

[hyeongseokpark-29cm]

please...

[chiragramani]

Hi folks, like you all, I love flipper too! After some inspiration from js-flipper and in need of a more friendly dependency stack, I recently open-sourced swift-flipper and FlipperLite. They both purely support SPM. I have integrated them in my applications - both server side and iOS, and it works fine for me. I would appreciate it if you try the example app or try integrating it in your app, share your thoughts how that goes for you and let me know if you face any issues!

[mflknr]

Seems like we've found the hero we needed but surely didn't deserve