SwiftUI Navigation: Simple, Native, Declarative
summary
A SwiftUI team chose to minimize UIKit when starting a SwiftUI 2.0 project (late 2021) and used Apple's NavigationView with a thin wrapper modeled like modal presentation. They explain evolving navigation from a simple TabBarView+NavigationView (iOS 14) to handling complex inter-screen graphs that exposed SwiftUI bugs, and share the team’s practical techniques and backports to keep a native, declarative navigation approach without reverting to UIKit or adopting heavier third-party frameworks.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03About the team
- 3:59SwiftUI navigation types
- 7:12Standard navigation issues
- 9:44Navigation Stack in iOS 16
- 12:37Alternative navigation libraries
- 14:37Custom navigation solution
- 17:51Declarative vs imperative
- 22:15Navigation code example
- 25:08Navigation Coordinator benefits
- 26:12Navigation Storch implementation
- 30:29Navigation Link bugs
- 33:20Library achievements summary
- 35:31Unified transitions via URL
- 38:42URL Links implementation
- 41:37Open source and future plans
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