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Comment on @StateObject for view owning "viewModel" to use with @Observable observation framework object
Since SwiftUI already is a view model you would be better off learning State & Binding instead of trying to build a custom layer of MVVM objects on top of it. That will likely cause the same kind of consistency errors that SwiftUI's use of View structs was designed to eliminate. Try breaking your view data up into View structs, put State in a shared common parent, pass down as let for read only or Binding var for read/write. The body will be called in all cases when the data changes.
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Jul ’24
Comment on Observation and MainActor
@erdeszbalazs read that link closely, it says "in your data model type", it isn't for view data, that is what View structs are designed for. Also at 20:50 in Data Essentials in SwiftUI WWDC 2020 they say "Views are very cheap, we encourage you to make them your primary encapsulation mechanism".
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May ’24
Comment on Observation and MainActor
You shouldn't do @State private var vm = ViewModel() because your ViewModel is a class. You would be better using the View as the view model and declaring @State for your data, e.g. @State var showDetails: Bool = false. You could group related state vars into a struct if you like but not a class. You can use mutating func for logic related to the vars.
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Apr ’24
Comment on Stop using MVVM for SwiftUI
When it detects a change in data, SwiftUI makes new View structs and diffs then with the previous ones. That difference is used to drive initing/updating/deallocing UIKit objects. Hopefully that helps you understand View structs are the view model.
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Jan ’24
Comment on Stop using MVVM for SwiftUI
If it doesn't make sense the first thing to learn (and Apple don't do a great job of explaining this) that the View struct hierarchy with its dependency tracking and diffing is the view model already. If you ignore that and use your own view model objects then you'll likely have the same consistency bugs that SwiftUIs implementation using structs was designed to eliminate. It's very tempting to use familiar objects but it really is worth putting the effort in and learning to use View structs.
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Jan ’24
Comment on @StateObject for view owning "viewModel" to use with @Observable observation framework object
Since SwiftUI already is a view model you would be better off learning State & Binding instead of trying to build a custom layer of MVVM objects on top of it. That will likely cause the same kind of consistency errors that SwiftUI's use of View structs was designed to eliminate. Try breaking your view data up into View structs, put State in a shared common parent, pass down as let for read only or Binding var for read/write. The body will be called in all cases when the data changes.
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Jul ’24
Comment on iOS 18 SwiftData ModelContext reset
Where do they recommend doing that? In the App struct (which is only init once) @State doesn't seem any different behavior from let container = ModelContainer.create() In a View struct @State will leak the initialValue object every time the View is init. Maybe they mean use @StateObject?
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Comment on Observation and MainActor
@erdeszbalazs read that link closely, it says "in your data model type", it isn't for view data, that is what View structs are designed for. Also at 20:50 in Data Essentials in SwiftUI WWDC 2020 they say "Views are very cheap, we encourage you to make them your primary encapsulation mechanism".
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May ’24
Comment on Observation and MainActor
You shouldn't do @State private var vm = ViewModel() because your ViewModel is a class. You would be better using the View as the view model and declaring @State for your data, e.g. @State var showDetails: Bool = false. You could group related state vars into a struct if you like but not a class. You can use mutating func for logic related to the vars.
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Apr ’24
Comment on Stop using MVVM for SwiftUI
When it detects a change in data, SwiftUI makes new View structs and diffs then with the previous ones. That difference is used to drive initing/updating/deallocing UIKit objects. Hopefully that helps you understand View structs are the view model.
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Jan ’24
Comment on Stop using MVVM for SwiftUI
If it doesn't make sense the first thing to learn (and Apple don't do a great job of explaining this) that the View struct hierarchy with its dependency tracking and diffing is the view model already. If you ignore that and use your own view model objects then you'll likely have the same consistency bugs that SwiftUIs implementation using structs was designed to eliminate. It's very tempting to use familiar objects but it really is worth putting the effort in and learning to use View structs.
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Jan ’24