https://www.mikegopsill.com/categories/url/ Recent content in URL on Mike Gopsill Hugo -- 0.164.0 en Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mikegopsill.com/posts/how-to-build-urls-in-swift/ Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mikegopsill.com/posts/how-to-build-urls-in-swift/ <p>Building URLs safely and expressively is a common requirement in Swift applications—especially when dealing with REST APIs. In this post, we’ll explore four elegant approaches to construct URLs in Swift: manual string interpolation, Foundation’s <code>URLComponents</code>, a custom URL‐builder DSL, and an enum‐driven router. By the end, you’ll have a clear sense of trade‐offs and patterns you can adopt in your own codebase.</p> <h2 id="manual-string-interpolation">Manual String Interpolation</h2> <p>The simplest approach is to build the URL by concatenating strings:</p>