apollo-ios VS Alamofire

GraphQL queries are just HTTP POST queries with a JSON body. They're supported everywhere.

If you want specialized tooling for them, Kotlin and Swift both have great strongly-typed GraphQL libraries.

Apollo publishes libraries for both:

- https://www.apollographql.com/docs/kotlin/

- https://www.apollographql.com/docs/ios/

apollo-ios - A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client. Language: Swift.

RFC: apollo-ios/CodegenProposal.md at release/1.0-alpha-incubating · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub Example Generated Output: apollo-ios/Tests/ApolloCodegenTests/AnimalKingdomAPI/ExpectedGeneratedOutput at release/1.0-alpha-incubating · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub PR for discussion is here: [RFC] In Progress - Release 1.0 - Swift Codegen by calvincestari · Pull Request #1876 · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub

Apollo iOS, on the other hand, generates Swift types from queries in our "queries.graphql" files and supports caching out of the box. Generating types from the SDL is not per se a problem, but it becomes cumbersome and error-prone with large nested queries. Apollo iOS also strongly-binds the generated structures to your queries, making it almost impossible to translate fetched data into an internal state.

Apollo Client does have a good integration with these frameworks including React, iOS and Android — so, you might want to check that out

Alamofire is a swift http request lib. By default, we need use completion handler to handle response. Today we are going to find out how to use it with async and await.

Looks like your Alamofire tutorial is out of date. I suggest you read the current documentation and update your code. For instance, you can update your example to:

Alamofire - Elegant HTTP networking

Alamofire - Alamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift. (de facto standard library for network) Language: Swift.

You can find an example using Alamofire, the most commonly used network framework, here.

https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire/blob/master/Documenta...

To add Alamofire, we'll be using Swift Package Manager. Xcode comes with built-in support for it and we'll not have to use external package managers like Cocoapods or Carthage. Click on File → Add Packages...