The article explains three strategies for breaking down monolithic SwiftUI views. First, extracting small reusable components by moving chunks of code into dedicated structs with parameters, which improves readability and enables separate previews. Second, using view modifiers (ViewModifier protocol) to encapsulate styling logic, with extensions for clean dot syntax. Third, creating generic containers with @ViewBuilder that can host any content type without knowing it in advance. The article also warns against using computed properties as a shortcut because they hide complexity without decoupling.
Matteo Manferdini has been developing apps for iOS since 2008. He has been teaching iOS development best practices to hundreds of students since 2015. Matteo is the developer of Vulcan, a macOS app to generate SwiftUI code. Before that he worked as a freelance iOS developer for small and big clients including TomTom, Squla, Siilo, and Layar. He holds a master's degree in computer science and computational logic from the University of Turin. In his spare time he dances and teaches tango.
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