Floating around - Pet project series - 2/x

Yesterday I got my second shot of a vaccine. Couple weeks more and I will be a functional part of society once again! Looking forward to it.

Talking about society and aging: I bought my first printer / scanner! Dunno why, not sure if I need it. But I was laying in bed at 3 am and like: "Shit! I need to order a printer!" Yeah, a lot of things in my life are decided at mid-night.

Wait... what? You are asking: what about a project? Which project? The project? Oh... yeah... about that.

Well...

You know...

When the neighbor above you decides to transform their apartments into a pool, it’s hard to focus on side projects.

IDs needs to go

While writing tests for recipes and the engine, it became clear to me that we are polluting code with meaningless ingredient.id . In almost the whole project we don't really care about Ingredient structure, all we need is just id. So I decided to rename Ingredient to IngredientMetadata and extract Ingredient.id to just Ingredient.

Feels a way better, see for yourself:

Before:
struct Recipe: CustomDebugStringConvertible {
    var product: Ingredient.ID
    var ingredients: [Ingredient.ID: Int]
    init(_ amount: Int, _ what: Ingredient.ID, ingredients: [Ingredient.ID: Int]) { ... }
}

After:
struct Recipe: CustomDebugStringConvertible {
    var product: Ingredient
    var ingredients: [Ingredient: Int]
    init(_ amount: Int, _ what: Ingredient, ingredients: [Ingredient: Int]) { ... }
}

Before:
let recipe = Recipe(1, woodenPlank.id, ingredients: [woodenLog.id: 1])

After:
let recipe = Recipe(1, woodenPlank, ingredients: [woodenLog: 1])

Want something done right, do it yourself

I feel that the logic part of the project is in good shape. That means it is time for UI thingies! Yay!

To start super simple, let's just use a bunch of UITableView (or UICollectionView? It's got buffed a lot recently) for now: list of ingredients, list of recipes, list of projects, recipe detail and project detail.

Now I need to decide how I would like to approach the layout:

• Autolayout is a way to go for the last 8 years

• Manual, frame based layout is an old-school approach that I haven't tried properly

Not sure about you, but for me it's simple: manual.

If you want to know how it all started, I got you: Starting Pet project series 0/x | ManWithBear

See ya!