EducaSwift

This article provides a quick overview of how to make a simple network request using Alamofire. Alamofire is a powerful and widely used library that you may encounter in various projects during your career. However, we won't dive deep into it here, as we believe it's often better to use pure Swift for handling network requests. Networking is a broad and complex topic, so we'll cover everything in more detail in future articles.

Installing Alamofire

We can use Swift Package Manager to install Alamofire in our project as we did in SPM article.

Downloading a data from an url

For this example we'll create a Button that will start the download, just to see how we can send a network request and how we can receive the response as well.

import Alamofire
import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {

    var body: some View {
        Button(action: {
            AF.request("https://educaswift.com/public/products.json")
                .response { response in
                    print(response.data)
                }
        }, label: {
            Text("Download")
        })
    }
}

#Preview {
    ContentView()
}

Once we imported Alamofire, we just need to call request function with the url as a parameter. Then, calling response function will return the result as data through a closure.