HandySwiftUI Extensions: Making SwiftUI Development More Convenient

Discover powerful SwiftUI extensions for clean optional bindings, intuitive color management, XML-style text formatting, and more. These battle-tested utilities will help you write more elegant SwiftUI code while reducing boilerplate in your apps.

After 4 years of iterating on these APIs in my own apps, I’m happy to share the first tagged release of HandySwiftUI. This package contains various utilities and convenience APIs that were essential in helping me ship 10 apps in the past year alone. It provides conveniences for SwiftUI development similar to how my HandySwift package does for Foundation.

In this article, I’ll share a selection of the extensions I’ve found most valuable in my daily development work across apps like TranslateKit, FreemiumKit, and CrossCraft. While HandySwiftUI contains many more utilities, these particular extensions have proven their worth time and time again in real-world applications and could be helpful for your SwiftUI projects as well.

Optional Binding Conveniences

The ?? and ! operators and the isPresent modifier simplify working with…