Should I put my UserDefaults saving process into ViewModel? (good architecture)

Question

I'm creating a simple NewsApp. I want to create the best app architecture I can made. So my question is that if I want save really simple data like username and maybe 5-6 tags as strings, should I put userDefaults logic into my viewModel or should I create a layer between ViewModel and UserDefaultsAPI which will take care about saving data?

I mean I will create StoreData protocol which UserDefaultsAPI will implement. And if I should do it how I can achieve that? I am using RxSwift and I don't now how to subscribe changing data in UserDefaults by UserDefaultsAPI.

Answer 1

It depends what your doing creating a seperate layer gives you, the opportunity to have different sources for data that implement the same protocol could be useful, and your data may be complex types than need to be encoded and decoded, so it makes sense to encapsulate that out, you may also want to provide some limit range to some of your values, but UserDefaults is just a service like NotificationCenter, you are not going to automatically wrap NotificationCenter in ever class, just do what is simplest, but doesn't run the risk of painting yourself in a corner later on. You are not going to get every issue decided at the get go right, the skill is to make sure you can quickly change if the need arises, and knowing about what possibility's you will need to take advantage of in the future and how can you avoid needing to make complex changes in the moment that don't add squat. There are lots of things you need to do, and being able to prioritise them is an important part of what you do, don't try make cleaver designs, be cleaver in making designs that can be easy for other to understand and modify.