Building a SwiftUI with Ghibli API

The project was build with the following:

• SwiftUI with Observation feature for better performance
• URLSession with async/await
• MVVM with service layer
• Unit testing

API documentation for Studio Ghibli:

• base URL: https://ghibliapi.vercel.app/
• endpoints used: /films /people
• no authentication required

Features of the Reference Project

• TabView with Navigation Stacks
• List Screen (fetch from API, show list of items)
• Detail Screen (display more info, async image loading)
• Testing, mocks, & dependency injection

     

Favorites (local persistence)

Search (filter + async debounce)

Settings (theme, stored in UserDefaults)