Demystifying data flow through SwiftUI

Alexander Obenauer
4 min readJun 11, 2019

The newly released SwiftUI allows you to write your interface declaratively. And with the new data flow mechanisms, you can write your data flow declaratively as well — and everything will update as you would expect it to, automatically. The concepts are powerful, but they can be a little confusing.

In this post, I’ll break down all the ways to move data declaratively through our SwiftUI views. Let’s start with a cheat sheet, and then we’ll move into descriptions and examples of each.

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