Easily generate Swift Playgrounds from your command line
for the new Playgrounds App on macOS 👨‍💻

Features

• Easily generate and instantly open Swift Playgrounds
• Generate Playground with SwiftUI template
• Open code from GitHub in a Swift Playground

Installation

Before installing the SwiftPlaygroundsCLI please make sure you have downloaded the Playgrounds.app from the Mac App Store.

Mint 🌱

Mint is a package manager that installs and runs Swift command line tool packages.

$ mint install SvenTiigi/SwiftPlaygroundsCLI

Homebrew 🍺

Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple's macOS operating system.

$ brew tap SvenTiigi/SwiftPlaygroundsCLI
$ brew install swiftplaygroundscli

Usage 👨‍💻

To generate a new Swift Playground simply run:

$ swiftplayground new

If you wish to specify a name for the Playground run:

$ swiftplayground new MyAwesomePlayground

Generate a Playground from your clipboard content via:

$ swiftplayground new --clipboard

To generate a Playground with a SwiftUI template run:

$ swiftplayground new --view

A Playground with contents from a GitHub URL can be generated via:

$ swiftplayground new --url https://gist.github.com/SvenTiigi/7eae5e55edd9be41211470fcbd937285

Arguments

A list of the available arguments that are supported by the SwiftPlaygroundsCLI.

new command

Long parameter	Short parameter	Description
--clipboard	-c	Generate a Playground from the current Clipboard content
--silent	-s	Generate a Playground without opening the Playgrounds application
--url	-u	Generate a Playground with contents from a URL
--view	-v	Generate a Playground with a SwiftUI template

Featured on

• iOS Dev Weekly
• Swift Weekly
• iOS Goodies

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome 🙌 🤓

Credits

SwiftPlaygroundsCLI is inspired by Playground from JohnSundell

License

SwiftPlaygroundsCLI
Copyright (c) 2020 Sven Tiigi <sven.tiigi@gmail.com>

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