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Stephen McMillan
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 33,994 PointsDifference between cocoapods and Github downloads?
I noticed when completing some courses that both cocoapods and files from github were used to make things easier. Although, to me they both look the same; does it matter which one I use? I can see that cocoapods don't get included in the final product files which makes me think they are better than using github libraries.
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1 Answer
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointscocoa pods really just make it easier to manage/use external libraries and dependencies. Instead of having to download files from github and import them all you have to do is place the name of the pod in your podfile and run the pod command. Cocoapods also separates the dependencies from your project through the workspace it creates when you run the pod command. It also makes it easy to update those pods with a single command as well. Its worth noting that there isnt a cocoapod for everything though.
In short, you should probably learn to use (and love!) cocoa pods. It makes things easier and seems to be the direction people are going.