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<a href='#what-is-sourcery' class='anchor' aria-hidden=true><span class="header-anchor"></span></a><h2 id='what-is-sourcery'>What is Sourcery?</h2>
<p><em><strong>Sourcery</strong> scans your source code, applies your personal templates and generates Swift code for you, allowing you to use meta-programming techniques to save time and decrease potential mistakes.</em></p>
<p>Using it offers many benefits:</p>
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<li>Write less repetitive code and make it easy to adhere to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don&#x27;t_repeat_yourself">DRY principle</a>.</li>
<li>It allows you to create better code, one that would be hard to maintain without it, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/Sourcery/blob/master/Sourcery/Templates/Diffable.stencil">performing automatic property level difference in tests</a></li>
<li>Limits the risk of introducing human error when refactoring.</li>
<li>Sourcery <strong>doesn&rsquo;t use runtime tricks</strong>, in fact, it allows you to leverage compiler, even more, creating more safety.</li>
<li><strong>Immediate feedback:</strong> Sourcery features built-in daemon support, enabling you to write your templates in real-time side-by-side with generated code.</li>
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<p><strong>Sourcery is so meta that it is used to code-generate its boilerplate code</strong></p>
<a href='#why' class='anchor' aria-hidden=true><span class="header-anchor"></span></a><h2 id='why'>Why?</h2>
<p>Swift features very limited runtime and no meta-programming features. Which leads our projects to contain boilerplate code.</p>
<p>Sourcery exists to allow Swift developers to stop doing the same thing over and over again while still maintaining strong typing, preventing bugs and leveraging compiler.</p>
<p>Have you ever?</p>
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<li>Had to write equatable/hashable?</li>
<li>Had to write NSCoding support?</li>
<li>Had to implement JSON serialization?</li>
<li>Wanted to use Lenses?</li>
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<p>If you did then you probably found yourself writing repetitive code to deal with those scenarios, does this feel right?</p>
<p>Even worse, if you ever add a new property to a type all of those implementations have to be updated, or you will end up with bugs.
In those scenarios usually <strong>compiler will not generate the error for you</strong>, which leads to error prone code.</p>
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