Xcode Treasures

Storyboard References

Once you start adding more and more scenes and segues, your storyboard will naturally get more and more complex. A simple app can easily have more than a dozen scenes, and a complex app can go into the hundreds.

This leads to all kinds of problems. Finding anything in the storyboard becomes a chore when you’re visually overwhelmed with scenes and segues. Making changes becomes hazardous, because if you happen to select the wrong thing and delete it, you can break a colleague’s work and not even realize it. Most notoriously, storyboards can be challenging to share in a source control system, causing git merges that are nearly impossible to make sense of (though we’ll try our best in Chapter 10, ​Source Control Management ...