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What pains me about coordinators

Swift, iOS, architectures… coordinators! Plague or cholera. Software isn't always easy, there are no silver bullets. Yada yada.

Coordinators sound super clean in theory, and in practice they are a nice way of separation but wedging them in can be rather painful.

• Presenting a coordinator is messy.
• Dealing with navigation controllers is messy.
• Sub-coordinators are messy.
• Passing data back to the parent is messy.
• Passing data along with the flow, A - (over B) -> C is messy.
• Service dependencies are messy (e.g. network API instances).
• They don't help with your view stack, so you still want view models/presenters.
• In-app linking/routing (e.g. notifications) is not straight-forward. Why can't it be?

Software as a whole is messy, and all points above are not necessarily due to coordinators, but some of them might be a tradeoff you make that you should probably be aware of.