Creating a reusable UIView with xib (and loading from storyboard)

Question

OK, there are dozens of posts on StackOverflow about this, but none are particularly clear on the solution. I\'d like to create a custom UIView with an accompan

Answer 1

Don't forget

Two important points:

1. Set the File's Owner of the .xib to class name of your custom view.
2. Don't set the custom class name in IB for the .xib's root view.

I came to this Q&A page several times while learning to make reusable views. Forgetting the above points made me waste a lot of time trying to find out what was causing infinite recursion to happen. These points are mentioned in other answers here and elsewhere, but I just want to reemphasize them here.

My full Swift answer with steps is here.