Announcing TCA Composer!

[scogeo]

I was inspired by the recent Point-Free Macro Bonanza to explore some ideas I have had for some time in reducing boilerplate in TCA-based apps. Macros seemed like the perfect way to accomplish this. The project began with a modest goal of simplifying how to use scopes in TCA. Instead of writing code like store.scope(state: \.child, action: \.child), I wanted to more concisely write store.scopes.child. That turned out to be fairly easy to implement and my mind was then filled with possibilities of what else I could accomplish with macros. So I began incrementally adding new capabilities to my macro framework using my own apps as a test bed and playground.

The final result is called TCA Composer. I'm happy to release it publicly today after a couple months of development in private. Over the coming days and weeks I will be improving the documentation, adding additional examples, and implementing a few additional capabilities that many may find useful.

Have any questions? Is there a particular TCA example you would like to see? Let me know in the comments.