Open source projects are all over the web and they can solve almost any problem that we, as developers, encounter.  I, as a frontend developer, use open-source products all the time starting from popular libraries like Bootstrap or Lodash and finishing with small ones, for example for handling scroll animations. This made me think about why open-source projects are so popular despite not providing any income to the creators. So I dug into the topic to find out.

As you may know, at Netguru we work on many different applications at the same time. It’s not uncommon for multiple projects to use the same dependencies, such as Kingfisher, PromiseKit, etc. What is more, not every library provides itself as a zip file. In that situation, Carthage has to compile the dependency, and that of course takes time. Multiple this by X, where X is the number of projects in your organization that use the same library and, in case the cache is empty on your CI server, you lost quite a lot of time. But there is a way to make it faster. Omnes viae Romam ducunt.

Sharing news about a new open-source tool is always exciting. Recently, CarLensCollectionViewLayout was released. What’s more, version 1.1.0 is ready now! 

Have you ever wanted to have a scrolling list with a section title visible all the time? Now you can do it in your own app. Just use our little library Sections-decorator!

We’re pleased to announce our new, open source iOS tool for HTTP de bugging – ResponseDetective.

Read about our latest open source project: an easy to read, centralized, and comprehensive solution to validating any Objective-C model in just a few lines of code. Validation has never been that easy!

We developed CarrierWave-iOS—an easy-to-use iOS library which provides a flexible way to download, upload and edit asset files. Check it out!

Introducing devise-iOS, a simple client which makes it easy to integrate and automate connections with Devise.