avalonia-viewmodels-zafiro

SKILL.md

Avalonia ViewModels with Zafiro

This skill provides a set of best practices and patterns for creating ViewModels, Wizards, and managing navigation in Avalonia applications, leveraging the power of ReactiveUI and the Zafiro toolkit.

Core Principles

Functional-Reactive Approach: Use ReactiveUI (ReactiveObject, WhenAnyValue, etc.) to handle state and logic.

Enhanced Commands: Utilize IEnhancedCommand for better command management, including progress reporting and name/text attributes.

Wizard Pattern: Implement complex flows using SlimWizard and WizardBuilder for a declarative and maintainable approach.

Automatic Section Discovery: Use the [Section] attribute to register and discover UI sections automatically.

Clean Composition: map ViewModels to Views using DataTypeViewLocator and manage dependencies in the CompositionRoot.

Guides

ViewModels & Commands: Creating robust ViewModels and handling commands.

Wizards & Flows: Building multi-step wizards with SlimWizard.

Navigation & Sections: Managing navigation and section-based UIs.

Composition & Mapping: Best practices for View-ViewModel wiring and DI.