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name: swiftui-best-practices description: SwiftUI best practices for behavior, structure, and performance. Use when designing or reviewing SwiftUI views, state management, layout decisions, animations, or performance tuning; when unsure how to model state vs dependencies; when avoiding conditional view pitfalls; or when optimizing diffing, ForEach identity, and rendering costs.

SwiftUI Best Practices

Overview

Concise guardrails and checklists for writing correct, maintainable, and performant SwiftUI. Use the cheatsheets below, and open per-theme references for detail: references/behavior.md, references/structure.md, references/performance.md.

Reference

• Behavior: references/behavior.md
• Structure: references/structure.md
• Performance: references/performance.md