StoryboardPresentable

A protocol based solution for creating instances of view controllers defined in UIStoryboard files.

This was originally inspired by Clean Code for Multiple Storyboards by Gurdeep Singh. I really liked the ideas he presented for generating properly typed view controllers, in code, from UIStoryboards. I felt it was better suited to a Protocol than generic UIViewController extension though so I made this.

Usage

Clone or download a .zip of this repository. Add the StoryboardPresentable folder to your project. Now your project just needs an AppStoryboard enum defined which is RawRepresentable as a String. Add the cases for the Storyboard names used in your app.

enum AppStoryboard: String {
	case Main
	case Secondary
}

An extension for AppStoryboard resides in the StoryboardPresentable directory to allows the enum to generate UIStoryboard instances of your storyboards. StoryboardPresentable then uses those UIStoryboard instances to instantiate your conforming view controllers.

Any view controller you wish to present from code simply needs to conform to StoryboardPresentable and be given a variable to tell the protocol which storyboard the view controller resides in.

extension SecondaryViewController: StoryboardPresentable {
	// MARK: - Create instances from the storyboard with StoryboardPresentable
	static var storyboard: AppStoryboard { return .Secondary }
}

Presenting these view controllers from code is now just a static method call on the view controller’s class.

	let vc = SecondaryViewController.storyboardInstance()

View the enclosed sample project to see an example of this in action.

License:

StoryboardPresentable is free to use under the MIT License.