☑️ Designing iOS architecture: Checklist
List of questions one should ask while designing an architecture.
The article explaining the motivation is here.
📈 Is it scalable?
- Does it handle changing business requirements efficiently?
- Does it support gradual adoption in existing projects?
- Does it allow replacing third-party components easily?
- Does is encourage composition of small independent components?
- Does it allow adding UI to features later?
- Does it support breaking of retain cycles on integration rather than component level?
- Does it support people working simultaneously on different parts of a feature?
- Does it limit the use of event/notification systems to specific layers?
- Does it provide a strategy for cutting corners and tech debt?
🚧 Is it maintainable?
- Does it provide a tactic for fighting massive objects?
- Does it limit the number of dependencies for an object?
- Does it try to reduce the amount of boilerplate code?
- Does it minimize the number of different roles of components?
- Does it suggest project structure tolerant to changes?
- Does it feel right?
🔱 Is it prepared for navigation?
- Does it explain how to pass data between components?
- Does it allow describing and discovering app flow naturally?
- Does it avoid transient dependencies?
- Does it define how to store state?
- Does it minimize the amount of global state?
- Does it allow opening a stack of screens?
- Does it handle opening of a screen from a push notification?
🌟 Is it promoting quality?
- Does it maximize the amount of testable code?
- Does it encourages compile-time decisions over runtime decisions?
- Does it avoid force casting and unwrapping?
- Does it allow stubbing asynchronous code to run tests synchronously?
- Does it support testing of UI?
- Does it forgive mistakes?
🤝 How to contribute
Feel free to make a pull request if something is missing!
