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# [Saved Templates That Survive App Updates: Versioned Codable in Swift](https://maxwelldispatch.hashnode.dev/saved-templates-that-survive-app-updates-versioned-codable-in-swift?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

The first version of a "save this as a template" feature is always easy. Make the struct Codable, encode an array to JSON, write it to disk. Ship it. The trouble arrives in the second version, when yo

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