CocoaPods

CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. Kinda like what npm is for Node.js and what Composer is for PHP.

tl;dr

sudo gem install cocoapods
cd project-dir
pod init 
# edit the Podfile
pod install
# open the .xcworkspace file and get to work

install

sudo gem install cocoapods
pod setup --verbose

create an Xcode project, save it, exit Xcode.

Now open Terminal, cd into the directory of your project, and run

pod init

this will create a Podfile in your project dir. This is the equivalent of package.json fornpm in Node. Here you should uncomment the platform :ios, '9.0' and add the pods you want included before the end. For example: pod 'Moltin'

# Uncomment this line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'MoltinShoppingApp' do
  # Comment this line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for MoltinShoppingApp
  pod 'Moltin'
end

Save the file, close. Now run:

pod install

to install your pods. You should see something like this:

$ pod install
Analyzing dependencies
Downloading dependencies
Installing AFNetworking (3.1.0)
Installing Moltin (1.1.5)
Generating Pods project
Integrating client project

[!] Please close any current Xcode sessions and use `MoltinShoppingApp.xcworkspace` for this project from now on.
Sending stats
Pod installation complete! There is 1 dependency from the Podfile and 2 total pods installed.

From now on, in order to access your installed projects, you should be using the .xcworkspace file to open the Xcode project.

That’s it. Note that if your Pod is in objective-c, you might need to add a bridging header to be able to use it in your Swift project.