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- Concept

✨ LinkNavigator is a library that helps you easily navigate between pages in SwiftUI.

• LinkNavigator provides an intuitive syntax for navigating pages via URL path-like expressions.
• You can easily go to any page with the deep-link processing style.
• You can inject parameters with page transition.
• LinkNavigator is designed for use in Uni-directional Architecture such as MVI design pattern or The Composable Architecture from pointfreeco, but it can be used in other architectures as well.

- Translations

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• 한국어(Korean)

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- Basic Usage

• push one or many pages.

  navigator.next(paths: ["page1", "page2"], items: [:], isAnimated: true)
  

• pop one or many pages.

  navigator.remove(paths: ["pageToRemove"])
  

• back to the prior page or dismiss modal simply.

  navigator.back(isAnimated: true)
  

• go to the page you want. If that page is already within navigation stack, go back to that page. Else if that page is not within stack, push new one.

  navigator.backOrNext(path: "targetPage", items: [:], isAnimated: true)
  

• replace current navigation stack with new one.

  navigator.replace(paths: ["main", "depth1", "depth2"], items: [:], isAnimated: true)
  

• open page as sheet or full screen cover.

  navigator.sheet(paths: ["sheetPage"], items: [:], isAnimated: true)
  
  navigator.fullSheet(paths: ["page1", "page2"], items: [:], isAnimated: true, prefersLargeTitles: false)
  

• close a modal and call completion closure.

  navigator.close(isAnimated: true) { print("modal dismissed!") }
  

• show a system alert.

  let alertModel = Alert(
    title: "Title",
    message: "message",
    buttons: [.init(title: "OK", style: .default, action: { print("OK tapped") })],
    flagType: .default)
  navigator.alert(target: .default, model: alertModel)
  

- Advanced Usage

• edit complicated paths and use it.

  // current navigation stack == ["home", "depth1", "depth2", "depth3"]
  // target stack == ["home", "depth1", "newDepth"]
  
  var new = navigator.range(path: "depth1") + ["newDepth"]
  navigator.replace(paths: new, items: [:], isAnimated: true)
  

• control pages behind modal.

  navigator.rootNext(paths: ["targetPage"], items: [:], isAnimated: true)
  
  navigator.rootBackOrNext(path: "targetPage", items: [:], isAnimated: true)
  

• you can choose modal presentation styles for iPhone and iPad respectively.

  navigator.customSheet(
    paths: ["sheetPage"],
    items: [:],
    isAnimated: true,
    iPhonePresentationStyle: .fullScreen,
    iPadPresentationStyle: .pageSheet,
    prefersLargeTitles: .none)
  

• forcely reload the last page behind the modal. This is useful when you need to call the onAppear(perform:) again.

  navigator.rootReloadLast(items: [:], isAnimated: false)
  

- Example

LinkNavigator provides 2 Example Apps.

• MVI based example
• TCA based example - with 0.50.1 release

- Getting Started

Step 1

• To install LinkNavigator in your SwiftUI project, you need to implement 4 files.

• You can freely edit the type names. In the following examples, simple names are used for clarity.

• Describe in order: AppDependency -> AppRouterGroup -> AppDelegate -> AppMain

  // AppDependency.swift
  // A type that manages external dependencies.
  
  import LinkNavigator
  
  struct AppDependency: DependencyType { } // you need to adopt DependencyType protocol here.
  

  // AppRouterGroup.swift
  // A type that manages the pages you want to go with LinkNavigator.
  
  import LinkNavigator
  
  struct AppRouterGroup {
    var routers: [RouteBuilder] {
      [
        HomeRouteBuilder(), // to be implemented in Step 3
        Page1RouteBuilder(),
        Page2RouteBuilder(),
        Page3RouteBuilder(),
        Page4RouteBuilder(),
      ]
    }
  }
  

  // AppDelegate.swift
  // A type that manages the navigator injected with external dependencies and pages.
  
  import SwiftUI
  import LinkNavigator
  
  final class AppDelegate: NSObject {
    var navigator: LinkNavigator {
      LinkNavigator(dependency: AppDependency(), builders: AppRouterGroup().routers)
    }
  }
  
  extension AppDelegate: UIApplicationDelegate {
    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]? = nil) -> Bool {
      true
    }
  }
  

  // AppMain.swift
  // A type that sets the starting page of the Application.
  
  import SwiftUI
  import LinkNavigator
  
  @main
  struct AppMain: App {
    @UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate.self) private var appDelegate
  
    var navigator: LinkNavigator {
      appDelegate.navigator
    }
  
    var body: some Scene {
      WindowGroup {
        navigator
          .launch(paths: ["home"], items: [:]) // the argument of 'paths' becomes starting pages.
          .onOpenURL { url in
          // in case you need deep link navigation,
          // deep links should be processed here.
          }
      }
    }
  }
  

Step 2

• Add a navigator property inside the page struct type, so that it is injected when initialized.

• Depending on the characteristics of the architecture, freely change the position of the navigator property and use it. For example, you can put it in ViewModel or Environment.

  struct HomePage: View {
    let navigator: LinkNavigatorType
  
    var body: some View {
      ...
    }
  }
  

Step 3

• Create a struct type adopting the RouteBuilder protocol for every page.

• RouteBuilder structs created in this way are collected and managed in the AppRouterGroup type.

  import LinkNavigator
  import SwiftUI
  
  struct HomeRouteBuilder: RouteBuilder {
    var matchPath: String { "home" }
  
    var build: (LinkNavigatorType, [String: String], DependencyType) -> MatchingViewController? {
      { navigator, items, dependency in
        return WrappingController(matchPath: matchPath) {
          HomePage(navigator: navigator)
        }
      }
    }
  }
  

- Installation

LinkNavigator supports Swift Package Manager.

• File menu at the top of Xcode -> Select Add Packages....
• Enter "https://github.com/interactord/LinkNavigator.git" in the Package URL field to install it.
• or, add the following in the Package.swift.

let package = Package(
  name: "MyPackage",
  products: [
    .library(
      name: "MyPackage",
      targets: ["MyPackage"]),
  ],
  dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/interactord/LinkNavigator.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "0.6.1"))
  ],
  targets: [
    .target(
      name: "MyPackage",
      dependencies: ["LinkNavigator"])
  ]
)

- Extra

• Q: How can I use large titles in SwiftUI?

  /// in AppMain.swift (MVI)
  /// To use for route navigation, set the prefersLargeTitles parameter to true in the launch method.
  
  navigator
    .launch(paths: ["home"], items: [:], prefersLargeTitles: true)
    
    
  /// in HomeView.swift (MVI)
  /// To specify the display mode of the navigation bar title, use the navigationBarTitleDisplayMode (.line, .large, .automatic) in the SwiftUI screen of each screen.
  ScrollView {
    ....
  }
  .navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.large)
  .navigationTitle("Home")
  
  
  ///  If you want to use it in fullSheet or customSheet,
  /// Home.intent (MVI)
  /// To enable large titles, set the prefersLargeTitles variable to true. To maintain the current settings, use .none.
  navigator.fullSheet(paths: ["page1", "page2"], items: [:], isAnimated: true, prefersLargeTitles: true)

• Q: I'm wondering how to apply IgnoringSafeArea to a specific part or the entire screen if I want to?

  1. Add the following code to the screen where LinkNavigator is first started (example: AppMain.swift).
  2. Then, add the following example code. (Refer to the AppMain.swift example.)

 navigator
    .launch(paths: ["home"], items: [:], prefersLargeTitles: true)
    /// - Note:
    ///   If you are using the ignoresSafeArea property to ignore the safe area on an internal screen,
    ///   please add the corresponding code to the part where you first execute the LinkNavigator.
    .ignoresSafeArea()

• Q: In the view controller, I need to handle various tasks such as navigation or calling Firebase events when calling the screen. How should I handle it?

  • You can customize the WrappingController. I will provide an example code for customization.

import SwiftUI
public final class DebugWrappingViewController<Content: View>: UIHostingController<Content>, MatchPathUsable {

  // MARK: Lifecycle

  public init(
    matchPath: String,
    trackEventUseCase: TrackEventUseCase,
    @ViewBuilder content: () -> Content)
  {
    self.matchPath = matchPath
    self.eventSubscriber = eventSubscriber
    self.trackEventUseCase = trackEventUseCase
    super.init(rootView: content())
  }

  required init?(coder _: NSCoder) {
    fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
  }

  deinit {
    print("✂️ \(matchPath) deinit...")
  }

  // MARK: Public

  public let matchPath: String

  public override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    view.backgroundColor = SystemColor.Background.Default.Base.getColor()
    print("🚗 \(matchPath)")
    trackEventUseCase.sendEvent(.screen(matchPath))
  }

  // MARK: Private

  private let trackEventUseCase: TrackEventUseCase
}

- License

This library is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.