HandySwiftUI View Modifiers: Streamlining Your SwiftUI Code

From smart color contrast and streamlined error handling to simplified deletion flows and platform-specific styling — discover the SwiftUI modifiers that eliminate common boilerplate code and help create more maintainable 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 view modifiers 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 modifiers have proven their worth time and time again in real-world applications and could be helpful for your SwiftUI projects as well.

Smart Color Contrast

The foregroundStyle(_:minContrast:) modifier ensures text remains readable by automatically adjusting color contrast. This is useful for…