[danielhooper]

I recently worked on an app that adopted a similar framework (ReSwift) and I hated it for the same reasons you are skeptical. It was needlessly complex, horrible to try and debug, and was incompatible with the "status-quo" of standard app development practices.

At the end of the day it was just a bad replacement for Core Data / Realm / whatever.

I wish I could tell you more but like yourself I really had absolutely no idea what the point was or what it was supposed to make easier.

[nnain]

I too considered ReSwift for my last iOS project, felt it would be an overkill, so didn't use it eventually (I've worked with React/Redux). Though I inculcated a Redux like approach into the App directly and it seems to be working really well! Keeps data clean. I would recommend front end devs to check out the Redux pattern: how it manages "app state" and "user actions".

[ianterrellwt]

I've been working on an app that's more or less using ReSwift (I've hacked on it a bit). Can you elaborate on what you ran into that was complex/horrible?

[danielhooper]

I couldn't fix a lot of UI problems because when trying to trace what was happening through this system of actions and states I could only find when these bugs occurred when stepping between lines of machine code.

I can't offer a fair point of view because I don't think the project I was working on made proper use of ReSwift. It was very difficult to follow the flow of data and understand why certain things wouldn't work.

[danappelxx]

What you're describing doesn't really make any sense... the whole point of these frameworks is to make your application more predictable. If your layout isn't right for a particular state, you can rewind back to that exact state again and again. It sounds like you were using ReSwift wrong, to be honest. There's not a lot of magic going on in it that would make it hard to debug.

[mahyarm]

RxSwift are super callback objects. I don't know why you would compare it with storage libraries.

[ianterrellwt]

ReSwift is a unidirectional data flow library that brings Redux-like behavior to Swift. RxSwift is not the same thing. :)