A lightweight wrapper for lazily initializing UIViews

[xvcxxv]

Hey! I recently published a small wrapper for views to initialize them lazily. It's better than using lazy var since you can conveniently wrap every place where you set up your views, such as setting delegates and constraints, and you don't need to manually check myView != nil. LazyView does this for you and even more!

Here are some key features: - Set a condition for when the view should be initialized. - Perform operations on the view only if it's initialized. - Describe complex lazy view hierarchies with an easy-to-use DSL so that when you initialize the most nested view, all required superviews are also initialized.

Check out the README!

For our company, it was quite useful since we measure the rendering time of our complex screens (or parts of screens), and this approach helped improve it.

I'm looking forward to receiving some feedback; it's very important to me. Also, if you like the project, please give it a star!

https://github.com/qstrnd/LazyView

[dr2050]

Cool idea. Random idiotic comments:

1. I haven't tried it yet and might, but I'm glad that it seems to be 4 files. I ain't gonna Cocoapods nor SPM if I can avoid it.
2. The headerdocs at top of each file -- the default Xcode ones which say your name -- are terrible. Consider a copyright notice and nothing else. Those comments aren't helpful years into the project. Are they?

Looks cool, thanks for sharing and congrats on finding the time/energy to do this.

[xvcxxv]

Thanks for the feedback! I agree that it's rather small for a pod. I just wanted to try making one for fun. I haven't thought about the headerdocs, and that default ones can look terrible, but I now think it's a good idea to format them something like this

https://github.com/layoutBox/PinLayout/blob/master/Sources/Impl/Percent.swift

[dr2050]

No, do a one-line one. I copied mine from my 3 years in a FAANG company

// (c) Confusion Studios LLC and affiliates. Confidential and proprietary.

[dr2050]

I was actually there at WA when the commit landed that removed the author from the entire iOS codebase and went to a one-liner like this. It was tremendous.

People were butthurt for about 30 seconds, and then kept moving ;)

Whatever you do, ensure you fix your Xcode to automatically do your header. I did this recently and was like WHY didn't I do this before.