storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier not setting IBOutlets

Question

I am using storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: and I\'m noticing that all the IBOutlets I have wired up are still nil. However, the

Answer 1

People gave solution of how to get the view loaded (some of which you should never use (loadView()) so here is a way to check whether your view is already loaded

I ran into the problem because I had a property with a didSet observer to update the UI which obviously doesn't work if the outlets are not yet set, so here is some example code how to work around it:

var name: String? {
    didSet {
        updateNameLabel()
    }
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    updateNameLabel()
}

func updateRoomLabel() {
    guard isViewLoaded() else {
        return
    }
    [...]
}

So now when you display the outlets get updated but also every time you update the property