swift-composable-architecture VS Kingfisher

TCA for short. Very scalable, quite promising, quite popular. A decent alternative for MVVM enhanced by the Clean Architecture. You can learn more about it in a Point-Free tutorial and on GitHub.

🙏 Built with SwiftUI and The Composable Architecture (TCA): This isn’t a feature, but I just want to express my gratitude to the creators and maintainers of these two frameworks, which have played a huge part in making me fall in love with iOS development.

Razliciti alternativni frameworci i arhitekture - Recimo, na pamet mi padaju Composable Architecture (https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture) i RIBs arhitektura (https://github.com/uber/RIBs). Ok, ove arhitekture resavaju neke probleme. Ali da li problemi koje te arhitekture resavaju solidan developer ne moze sam da resi bez vendor locka za kreatore tih arhitektura. Jesu one open-source, ali meni je rizik da se vezujem za bilo sta sto sutra moze da prestane da se odrzava.

I came across this post discussing MVM, MVVM, MVP, and composable architecture.

At a minimum, Composable Architecture, and now Dependencies from Point-Free.

I’ve built a couple of apps with this framework: https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture

While there are apps that use a Redux-style architecture, the arch is still in its infancy in the community. There are a number of implementations each with their own take on Redux. TCA is probably the one with the most name recognition and documentation.

Learn it if the project at hand requires it. A lot of older, more mature apps will still use UIKit, so it’s likely if you plan to work an iOS developer job that you will need it. But it’s getting to the point where a lot of the forward thinking shops are already starting to integrate SwiftUI. (Me being one of them) which, btw, a lot of people will say SwiftUI isn’t quite there yet, and I mostly disagree. SwiftUI is good for a great many use cases. Yes, there are still pain points, but you can write most of the apps you’d need to write in SwiftUI. And there are great architectural frameworks out there that actually give SwiftUI an opinionated way to structure apps that is testable and maintainable. Check out pointfreeco’s The Composable Architecture (https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture)

The 3rd party library I use GRDB SwiftyUserDefaults Kingfisher SwiftDate Popovers

Saving URLs definitely the way to go. Would recommend using a library such as Kingfisher to do the image loading/ caching for you.

I also looked into this github library but wanted to first ask if anyone's had any experience using it.

You can checkout Kingfisher library (it downloads image, and caches it). Usage is fairly simple but I would recomment that you create extension for the UIIMageView, somthing in line like this:

In native iOS, most people use Kingfisher, and i'd love to have something as good as that on our RN app. Perhaps just some pure JS library that you could plug on the existing image component, and that would handle the saving-to-disk and fetching of the image?

Kingfisher - Download and cache images

We are using https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher for smooth image loading in collection view. If the image data are not in regular text file, how can we integrate CoreData's blob data with Kingfisher?

Make sure the proper target is selected in the Add to target in the dialog as shown above, then click Add Package button. The package should successfully be added to your project. Now following the same process, this time search for the Kingfisher package using the GitHub URL as the following https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher.

Kingfisher - A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. Language: Swift.