instantiate your UIViewController subclass from a storyboard with slightly prettier casting.

UIViewController+StoryboardConvenience.swift

import Foundation

extension UIViewController {
    
    class func fromStoryboard(name: String, identifier: String? = .None, bundle: NSBundle? = .None) -> Self? {
        return fromStoryboardHelper(self, name: name, identifier: identifier, bundle: bundle)
    }

    private class func fromStoryboardHelper<T: UIViewController>(type: T.Type, name: String, identifier: String?, bundle: NSBundle?) -> T? {
        if let identifier = identifier {
            return UIStoryboard(name: name, bundle: bundle).instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier(identifier) as? T
        } else {
            return UIStoryboard(name: name, bundle: bundle).instantiateInitialViewController() as? T
        }
    }
}

example usage let myVC = MyAwesomeViewController.fromStoryboard("Login") myVC type will be MyAwesomeViewController?