2016-11-08 AutoLayout in a playground

What got me confused today, was how to play with AutoLayout in a Playground. The trick is to first create a main view, akin to the view in a View Controller, that is sized with a frame (without constraints).

After that's set up, add subviews that use AutoLayout. The following works for Xcode 8.1:

    import UIKit

    let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 500, height: 500))
    view.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
    view.layer.borderWidth = 2.0

    let licensePlateView = UIView()
    licensePlateView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    licensePlateView.backgroundColor = UIColor.gray
    view.addSubview(licensePlateView)

    licensePlateView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor).isActive = true
    licensePlateView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor).isActive = true
    licensePlateView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 200).isActive = true
    licensePlateView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 50).isActive = true

    view.layoutIfNeeded()
    view

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