georgebellos / fantastic-ios-architecture

:japanese_castle: Better ways to structure iOS apps

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Better ways to structure apps

let buzzWords = [
  "Model", "View", "Controller", "Entity", "Router", "Clean", "Reactive", 
  "Presenter", "Interactor", "Megatron", "Coordinator", "Flow", "Manager"
]
let architecture = buzzWords.shuffled().takeRandom()
let acronym = architecture.makeAcronym()

Content

• MVC
• MVP
• MVVM
• Clean Architecture
• Unidirectional Data Flow
• VIPER
• VIP
• Data Source
• Misc

MVC

Model View Controller

Posts

• Model-View-Controller, Apple Docs
• Looking at Model-View-Controller in Cocoa
• Do MVC like it’s 1979
• A Better MVC, Part 1: The Problems 🚀
• Using child view controllers as plugins in Swift
• MVC.
• Model-View-Controller without the Controller
• Just Controllers
• A Better MVC

MVP

Model View Presenter

Posts

• A dumb UI is a good UI: Using MVP in iOS with swift
• Going from MVC to MVP on iOS

Repos

• AppDemo
• foodMVP
• ios-mvp-clean-architecture
• iOS_MVC_MVP_MVVM_SampleApp
• MVP-iOS
• MVP-iOS
• MVPExample
• MVP

MVVM

Model View ViewModel

Posts

• Introduction to MVVM
• MVVM is Not Very Good
• Simplification Of IOS View Controllers: MVVM Or Presentation Controls?
• On MVVM, and Architecture Questions
• Reddit-MVVM-Benchmark MVVM with FRP Benchmark project
• The MVVM Pattern for iOS Apps in Swift: a Pragmatic Approach
• MVVM Is Quite Okay at What It Is Supposed to Do
• MVVM-C In Practice
• MVVM in Practice - RWDevCon Session
• View Models at Kickstarter
• How not to get desperate with MVVM implementation
• iOS Architecture: A State Container based approach 🚀
• Different flavors of view models in Swift

Repos

• TheReactiveArchitecture The modern and reactive architecture for RxSwift application
• kickstarter vm structure Rx input and output
• Coordinator-MVVM-Rx-Example Example of MVVM-C architecture implemented with RxSwift
• RxCoordinator iOS framework that helps you implement Model-View-ViewModel-Coordinator architecture.

Clean Architecture

Posts

• Clean Swift iOS Architecture for Fixing Massive View Controller

Repos

• CleanStore A sample iOS app built using the Clean Swift architecture
• CleanArchitectureRxSwift Example of Clean Architecture of iOS app using RxSwift 🚀
• Reminders An iOS application written in Swift to demonstrate how to implement a Clean Architecture in iOS

Unidirectional Data Flow

Posts

• Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift: An Alternative to Massive View Controllers
• Ziggurat iOS App Architecture
• ziggurat App architecture with one-way data data flow and view models
• Rethinking iOS App Architecture Using a One Way Data Flow
• Elmification of Swift
• StateView Views that automatically update themselves.
• Render Swift and UIKit a la React.
• Real World Flux Architecture on iOS ⭐
• Turning UIKit Inside Out ⭐
• App Coordinators and Redux on iOS
• ReSwift Tutorial: Memory Game App
• Building a Unidirectional Data Flow App in Swift with Realm
• Architecture Thoughts: Migrating Marvel's iOS App to ReSwift ..
• Functional architecture for Swift
• iOS Architecture: Separating logic from effects ⭐

Repos

• ReSwift Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift - Inspired by Redux ⭐
• Reactor Unidirectional data flow in Swift
• Aftermath Stateless message-driven micro-framework in Swift
• Renderer Swift and UIKit a la React.
• Few.swift Views as functions of their state.
• SwiftFlux A type-safe Flux implementation for Swift
• katana-swift Swift Apps in a Swoosh
• Dispatch Multi-store Flux implementation in Swift.
• ReactorKit A framework for reactive and unidirectional Swift application architecture 🚀 🚀
• RxFeedback Architecture for RxSwift
• tea-in-swift The Elm Architecture in Swift
• Suas-iOS Unidirectional data flow architecture implementation for iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS http://suas.readme.io
• ReactComponentKit ReactComponentKit is a library for building UIViewController based on Components.

VIPER

View Interactor Presenter Entity Router

Posts

• Introduction to VIPER
• Architecting iOS Apps with VIPER
• Brigade’s Experience Using an MVC Alternative
• First Observations on TDD with VIPER
• Building Modular iOS Apps
• iPhreaks Show – VIPER with Conrad Stoll and Jeff Gilbert
• Clean Architecture - VIPER by Redbooth
• 250 Days Shipping With Swift and VIPER
• IOS ARCHITECTURE: REAL LIFE VIPER
• Humble Object Pattern in Swift
• Should I use Viper architecture for my next iOS application, or it is still very new to use?
• VIPER to be or not to be?
• iOS Project Architecture: Using VIPER
• iOSModulesArchitecture Quick example of how divide an app into modules to respect the SOLID principles
• ARCHITECTING MOBILE APPS WITH (B)VIPER MODULES - A STRUCTURED ENGINEERING APPROACH FOR BIG MOBILE APPS
• Clean Architecture - VIPER at Redbooth by @sergigracia
• VIPER to be or not to be
• Building iOS App With VIPER Architecture
• Viper Framework for iOS using Swift v3
• VIPER-S: WRITING YOUR OWN ARCHITECTURE AND UNDERSTAND ITS IMPORTANCE (PART 3)
• Facing the VIPER
• Building a Framework with VIPER

Repos

• iOS-Viper-Architecture A detailed sample app that implements VIPER architecture
• iOS Viper XCode Templates Another detailed sample app that implements VIPER architecture with code generation templates
• iOSSwiftStarter A sample iOS app written in Swift using the VIPER architecture.

VIP

View Interactor Presenter

Posts

• Architecture Wars – A New Hope
• Introducing Clean Swift Architecture (VIP)

Data Source

Posts

• Lightweight iOS View Controllers
• Apple’s Take on App Architecture
• Fluent Pagination - no more jumpy scrolling
• AdvancedCollectionView
• iOS: UITableView controller
• Nestable
• Advanced UITableViews Made Simple: YLTableView
• Typed, yet Flexible Table View Controller
• Complex table view state changes made easy
• UMT2016 - John Sundell - Building component-driven UIs at Spotify
• Refactoring at Scale – Lessons Learned Rewriting Instagram’s Feed
• IGListKit Tutorial: Better UICollectionViews
• Dealing with Complex Table Views in iOS and Keeping Your Sanity
• iOS: How to build a Table View with multiple cell types
• Using Dedicated Objects as Delegates & Datasources
• Reusable data sources in Swift

Repos

• Mensa Smart, modern table and collection views on iOS.
• RLDTableViewSuite Reusable table view controller, data source and delegate for all your UITableView needs
• PagedArray A Swift data structure for easier pagination
• ReadingList An example on using the Mantle Modeling Framework with Overcoat AFNetworking extension.
• DTTableViewManager Protocol-oriented UITableView management, powered by generics and associated types.
• Spots Spots is a view controller framework that makes your setup and future development blazingly fast ⭐
• JSQDataSourcesKit Type-safe, value-oriented, composable data source objects that keep your view controllers light
• HubFramework Spotify’s component-driven UI framework for iOS
• ComponentKit A React-inspired view framework for iOS
• IGListKit A data-driven UICollectionView framework for building fast and flexible lists.
• JASONETTE-iOS Native App over HTTP ⭐⭐🚀
• StackScrollView iOS Form UI Builder in Swift (powered by UICollectionView)
• ScrollingStackViewController A view controller that uses root views of child view controllers as views in a UIStackView.
• ScrollingStackContainer Efficient Scrolling UIStackView in Swift
• Flow A new declarative approach to UITableView
• FlowKit Declarative type-safe manager for UITableView & UICollectionView
• Static Simple static table views for iOS in Swift.
• Bento Swift library for building component-based interfaces on top of UITableView
• ReactiveLists React-like API for UITableView & UICollectionView
• LiveCollections

Misc

General

• Benchmarking MVC vs MVP vs MVVM in iOS
• iOS Architecture Patterns Demystifying MVC, MVP, MVVM and VIPER 🚀
• Clean Cocoa ⭐
• iOS Development: You're Doing It Wrong
• How to separate view controllers from their view logic
• 8 Patterns to Help You Destroy Massive View Controller
• Intentions
• Model-View-ViewModel for iOS
• Singletons, AppDelegates and top-level data.
• Collection Extensions
• Model View Controller Presenter
• Model View Whatever
• How We Modularized Medium’s iOS codebase
• Lighter View Controller Swift
• Improve your iOS Architecture with FlowControllers
• Massive View Controller
• Modern application architectures (Reactive programming, MVVM and beyond)
• “Tree of Models” as an Alternative App Architecture Model ⭐
• A composable pattern for pure state machines with effects
• Architectures comparison
• Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture
• Highly maintainable app architecture ⭐
• Everyone is an API designer 🚀
• Driving view state through data
• Improving Existing Apps with Modern Best Practices 🚀
• Platformizing UI code
• The State of Statelessness
• Good iOS Application Architecture 🚀
• Much ado about iOS app architecture ⭐
• The Presentation Model
• The New Swipe Right with Swift
• Zero Knowledge Architectures for Mobile Applications
• Top-down iOS error architecture
• App Architectures: Remixed
• iOS Application Architecture
• How to move data sources and delegates out of your view controllers
• App Architecture and Object Composition in Swift
• Let's Talk Architecture

API

• API Design
• Testable interface design with enums

Refactoring

• Similar Prefixes
• Structuring Swift code

Coordinator

• Coordinators Essential tutorial. Part I
• Coordinators Essential tutorial. Part II
• Coordinators Redux
• Coordinators – Soroush Khanlou - CocoaHeads Stockholm
• Passing dependencies through Coordinator chain
• MVC-C · Injecting Coordinator pattern in UIKit

FlowController

• Coordinator and FlowController

View and Model

• View Descriptors
• Preventing views from being model aware in Swift
• UITableViewCell and Model

AppDelegate

• SERVICE-ORIENTED APPDELEGATE
• Lighter AppDelegate
• Service-oriented AppDelegate

Repos

• Logician Logic programming in Swift
• modular-architecture Examples of iOS Modular Architecture in Swift
• Delta Delta takes an app that has custom state management spread throughout all the VCs and simplifies it by providing a simple interface to change state and subscribe to its changes.
• eigen The Art World in Your Pocket or Your Trendy Tech Company's Tote, Artsy's iOS app
• ENGINEERING THE ARCHITECTURE BEHIND UBER’S NEW RIDER APP
• RIBs Uber's cross-platform mobile architecture framework.
• Alicerce A base for iOS Applications by Mindera
• Flint The Flint framework for building apps on Apple platforms using Feature Driven Development

Sync

• Introducing the Realm Mobile Platform: Realtime Sync Plus Fully Open Source Databas
• wire-ios-sync-engine iOS synchronization library for Wire

Cache

• MVC-RS
• The Missing Light Persistence Layer for Swift
• How to Abstract Your Persistence Layer and Migrate to Another One on iOS With JustPersist
• The Flat Cache
• Cache Nothing but Cache
• RocketData
• Managing Consistency of Immutable Models
• CTPersistance
• JustPersist
• Pantry

Asynchronous Programming

• Comparative Asynchronous Programming
• Thinking in RxSwift
• Reducers
• RxSwift Reactive Programming in Swift
• Operations A Swift framework inspired by WWDC 2015 Advanced NSOperations session.
• Modern RxSwift Architectures

Navigation

• Coordinators Redux
• Deep links with no brainer
• Flow Controllers on iOS for a Better Navigation Control
• Improve your iOS Architecture with FlowControllers
• Coordinators Essential tutorial
• MVVM-C A simple way to navigate
• Compass Compass helps you setup a central navigation system for your application
• Deep Linking at Kickstarter
• One navigator to rule them all - iOS Conf SG 2017
• URL Routing with Compass ⭐
• Weavy Navigation framework for iOS applications based on a weaving pattern
• RxFlow RxFlow is a navigation framework for iOS applications based on a Reactive Flow Coordinator pattern
• A Flexible Routing Approach in an iOS App
• Navigation in Swift

Analytics

• Building an enum-based analytics system in Swift
• When Not to Use an Enum
• Misusing enums
• Logging in Swift
• Swift Analytics

Logic vs Effect

• Value-Oriented Programming

Licence

This project is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md.