State Management similar to SwiftUI

[Chandram-Dutta]

right now, things like TextField and NavigationSplitView depends on TextController and ValueNotifier. ik this is a rewrite of flutter in swift, but wouldn't it be better to replace them with something like @State or Observation Framework...

[xtyxtyx]

Totally agree with you that something like @State is absolutely better.

Currently things like "TextController" are intentionally kept to make it easier to port Flutter framework code to Shaft.

And there is some challenges in adopting @State. As far as I know the SwiftUI @State is implemented with some internal APIs and memory hacks that can be complex to replicate.

I'm actively exploring potential workarounds for this. And any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[n7trd]

And any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

This could be interesting, especially the state management part:
https://git.aparoksha.dev/aparoksha/meta/src/branch/main

// State management example from the site:

struct SearchView: View {

    @State private var count = 0

    var view: Body {
        Button(icon: .minus) {
            count -= 1
        }
        Text("\(count)")
        Button(icon: .plus) {
            count += 1
        }
    }

}

It's part of the Aparoksha project for cross-platform apps that uses native widgets, but it could be beneficial to share code that is important regardless of how widgets are rendered.