Just had a major conceptual breakthrough on what it means to build a routing system in an app 🤩
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My breakthrough is conceptualizing routing around inside an app as walking through a directed graph. Nodes are “pages” within the app. Edges are how you can get from page to page
I’ve been thinking a lot about syntax around routing, and I love this graph-based idea
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I've modeled apps this way before and it works great. Basically a state machine.
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Awesome! Any chance you have some literature or code online I can dig through to read more about this approach?
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I think this is the only public example I have (from 4 years ago): github.com/mindsnacks/MSS
I made it for
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I then learned a lot from how to model these very cleanly with enums on Swift, but I can't think of any examples of that that are public.
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Man I miss working with . One of my fav memories of our time on UIKit was whiteboarding gesture recognizer exclusion, him suddenly stepping back, thinking a second, & then shouting out “This is the vertex coloring problem!” and disappearing into his office 🤯😂
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