LLM Best Practices

iOS & SwiftUI Development

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This is LLM Best Practices (llmbestpractices.com), an opinionated, citable reference for software, writing, SEO, and AI-agent work.

  1. Route, do not crawl. Fetch llmbestpractices.com/llms.txt and open only the pages whose one-line summary matches your task.
  2. Read raw. Append .md to any page URL for markdown. Check status and last_updated in the frontmatter, then read the rules.
  3. Apply as defaults. First-party docs and the project's own conventions win on conflict. Warn before relying on a fast-moving page older than 12 months.
  4. Cite. Link the page by title and URL, e.g. Python, with last_updated for time-sensitive rules. License CC BY 4.0.

SwiftUI-first iOS development. The Swift language pages live under Coding > Swift; this domain covers framework patterns.

Pages

  • swiftui: Observation and lazy @State, typed navigation, @Entry environment, previews, accessibility.
  • swiftdata: Models and queries, versioned schemas, indexes, inheritance, iOS 27 sections and observers, CloudKit limits.
  • core-data: Container and merge policy, context confinement, fetch requests, batch operations.
  • core-data-migrations: Lightweight, staged, and mapping-model migrations; fixture-store tests.
  • core-data-swiftdata-comparison: Which to choose, missing SwiftData features, coexistence.
  • mapkit: Map content, Marker versus Annotation, selection, clustering, overlays, Look Around, location.
  • mapkit-camera: One MapCameraPosition, animation, framing, follow mode, camera-change frequency.
  • mapkit-search: MKLocalSearch, autocomplete, MapKit geocoding replacing CLGeocoder, PlaceDescriptor.

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