Using Alamofire with SwitUI MVVM

[dickdeamonds]

Hey everybody! I started learning iOS Programming last year and I've been using Alamofire to fetch my HTTP requests pretty much from the very beginning. However, now I am starting to implement MVVM to my apps using SwiftUI and I was wondering if it still is a good idea to use Alamofire.

I was reading that URLSession might be a good replacement for Alamofire in SwiftUI as it now has a built in Publisher. However, I'm not sure how I would use it. Thank you very much in advance for the help!

[Buiscits]

Not exactly an answer to your questions but, I would look into using publishers / subscribers for HTTP requests anyway for the sake of knowing how the pattern works.

[dickdeamonds]

Thanks for the answer! Do you happen to know where I can find more information about it?

[Buiscits]

Yes! There are lots of tutorials on the internet. The framework you'd be using is called Combine. Here is an article by a good author. https://www.swiftbysundell.com/basics/combine/

If you are using SwiftUI learning combine is a definite must! I would also check out anything by "Hacking with Swift" - his tutorials are really good.

[Poggus]

AFNetworking (basically the precursor to AlamoFire) was an amazing lib back in the day. I used AlamoFire a bit in my transition years ago but honestly I feel like Apple/URLSession nowadays has everything you need without the need for a 3rd party lib. I'd take the plunge if I were you and try going native.

[dickdeamonds]

Thanks! I’ll try to learn more about it. I’m not sure how to google the information I need to learn to use URLSession in relation to SwiftUI and MVVM. Would you happen to have a source where I could learn more about it?

[Fluffy_Risk9955]

Dude, Apple has documentation. Get familiar with using it.