Star Wars Universe Explorer

This is the Swift project we built during our Swift Concurrency workshop at try! Swift World.

It's a SwiftUI app to explore the free data kindly provided by The Star Wars API.

You can step through our progress with each commit, tagged in git as follos:

• tag 1: Intial project with a People DTO.
• tag 2: Fetch a single "People" with await.
• tag 3: Generalize fetching with URL extension.
• tag 4: Generalize fetching with Decodable extension function.
• tag 5: Generalize fetching with async init in Decodable extension.
• tag 6: Handle HTTP error status codes.
• tag 7: Generalize with URLRequest extension. Add aggressive caching!
• tag 8: Add PeoplePage DTO. Fetch a page of people form API.
• tag 9: Fetch all pages from API in a loop.
• tag 10: Add a People detail view. Add a Film DTO.
• tag 11: Thought experiment with async let. Add snake case decoding.
• tag 12: Fetch all Films with a task group.
• tag 13: Move extensions. Fetch all people pages in a background task.
• tag 14: Generalize fetching collections of Decodables from collections of URLs.
• tag 15: Add mock JSON to previews. Add Film detail view.
• tag 16: Backport URLSession async method. Add README.
• tag 17: Add an opening crawl view.
• tag 18: Update README. Refactor. Use shared JSONDecoder. Update comments.

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