Update (03/02/2023): Added View Specific Logic section. Software architecture is always a topic for hot debate, specially when there are so many different choices. For the last 8–12 months, I have been experimenting with MV pattern to build client/server apps and wrote about it in my original article SwiftUI Architecture…

It always excites me to see so many people jumping into iOS development. We have a great community with lot of talented people and it is continuously expanding. Recently, I have been talking to a lot of new developers and one of the main challenges they shared with me is…

Applying React.js learnings to SwiftUI — In the last architecture, we discussed in detail about SwiftUI Architecture using the MV Pattern. It is highly recommended that you read that article. In this post, we will cover how to create SwiftUI client/server applications using patterns and practices learned from the React.js framework. Consuming JSON in React React was introduced in 2013…

Last year I was working on an app which was using the Core Data framework as a persistent medium to the SQLite store. I was reluctant to use any SwiftUI property wrappers for Core Data in my app, because I wanted to structure the app in several layers and those…

Instead of fighting the framework, try to embrace it — Update 03/09/2023 — I published a brand new article titled “Building Large-Scale Apps with SwiftUI: A Guide to Modular Architecture”. Update 02/03/2023 — I recently published few more articles about SwiftUI Architecture. This includes exploring the Container Pattern(https://azamsharp.com/2023/01/24/introduction-to-container-pattern.html), which is a common pattern when building ReactJS applications and Active Record…

Introducing the MV Pattern — Update: I wrote a more detailed version of this article title “Building Large-Scale Apps with SwiftUI — A Guide to Modular Architecture.” I started working with SwiftUI framework in 2019. Like most developers, I also jumped on the MVVM bandwagon. I wrote books on it, gave presentations and even created…

Comparison with WPF framework — In this post, I will cover how a SwiftUI View is not only a view but also a ViewModel. We will compare it with WPF framework and see how SwiftUI already has built-in support for ViewModel right within the view. This means that in most cases, you don’t need to…

In SwiftUI, @EnvironmentObject allows you to create global state that can be shared and manipulated from any view in your application. We tend to put @EnvironmentObject in our views and directly access the global state. This creates a tight coupling between the view and the @EnvironmentObject, but avoiding this approach…

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