Mastering Swift: Create Your Own Property Wrapper

Elevate Your Swift Code to the Next Level by Customizing Property Behaviour with Property Wrappers

Steven Curtis
4 min readMar 16, 2023
Photo by ARTO SURAJ on Unsplash

In 2020 I wrote an article about Swift’s property wrappers. I even called it “Understanding Swift’s Property Wrappers”. The problem?

I still don’t feel I adequately understand Property Wrappers.

I need to create my own to really “understand” what is going on under the hood. When that happens, I feel like making an article about the journey.

That article? You’re reading it.

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

This article has been developed using Xcode 14.2, and Swift 5.7.2

Prerequisites:

You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application, or a Playground to run Swift code

It might be worth exploring what a property wrapper is, if you are unsure

Keywords and Terminology:

Property Wrapper: A property wrapper adds a layer of separation between code that manages how a property is stored and the code that defines a property

Property Wrappers

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