The best code is no code, but when you must, make it composable

🏗️ Embracing the Composable Architecture: A Swift Developer’s Guide to Sanity

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“Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” — Austin Freeman

🌟 Why Architecture Matters

Imagine building a skyscraper without blueprints. Chaos, right? Yet, many apps start as “small projects” that spiral into tangled codebases. Traditional patterns like MVC or MVVM work for tiny apps, but as complexity grows, you’re left debugging state mutations across 20 screens or wrestling with side effects that break tests.

Enter architectures: they’re blueprints for your code. They enforce structure, separate concerns, and make your app predictable. But not all architectures are created equal. If you’ve ever felt like you’re “passing closures to the 7th layer of UIViewController hell,” you’re not alone 511.

🚀 Meet the Composable Architecture (TCA)

Developed by Point-Free (a Swift edutainment platform by Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis), TCA is not just another architecture. It’s a functional, Redux-inspired framework designed for SwiftUI, UIKit, and beyond. Think of it as “React for Swift” but with a Swift-y…