A very minimalistic navigation stack for SwiftUI NavigationView with push/pop operations and optional tags. It is meant to simplify the usage of NavigationView and NavigationLink.

NavigationStack

Installation

Swift Package Manager

The Swift Package Manager is a tool for automating the distribution of Swift code and is integrated into the swift compiler. Open Xcode, click on File -> Swift Packages -> Add Package dependency... and use the repository URL (https://github.com/AlessandroMulloni/SwiftUI-NavigationStack) to download the package.

In XCode, when prompted for Version or branch, the suggestion is to use Branch: master.

Objects

NavigationStack

Implements the stack and offers push and pop operations.

NavigationStackItem

A simple wrapper around Bool with a default initializer to false.

Usage

Include SwiftUI_NavigationStack and inject the NavigationStack into your NavigationView as an environment object.

import SwiftUI_NavigationStack

struct RootView: View {
    let navigationStack = NavigationStack()

    var body: some View {
        NavigationView{
            ...
        }
        .navigationViewStyle(StackNavigationViewStyle())
        .environmentObject(navigationStack)
    }

Push any desired view by defining a standard NavigationLink and then pushing the corresponding binding to the stack.

import SwiftUI_NavigationStack

struct RootView: View {
    @State var presentingChild = NavigationStackItem()
    ...

    var body: some View {
        NavigationView{
            NavigationLink(destination: ChildView(), isActive: self.$presentingChild) { EmptyView() }
            Button("Push") { 
                self.navigationStack.push(self.$presentingChild) 
            }
        }
    }
}

Optionally, add a tag to the view you pushed (any Hashable will work).

...
Button("Push") { 
    self.navigationStack.push(self.$presentingFirst, tag: "MyTag") 
}
...

When you are done with the view, you can pop it from the stack.

import SwiftUI_NavigationStack

struct ChildView: View {
    @EnvironmentObject var navigationStack: NavigationStack

    var body: some View {
        Button("Pop") { 
            self.navigationStack.pop() 
        }
    }
}

Optionally, you can pop all views to a specific view.

...
Button("Pop") { 
    self.navigationStack.pop(tag: "MyTag) 
}
...

Or you can pop all views to the root.

...
Button("Pop") { 
    self.navigationStack.popToRoot() 
}
...

Caveats

This library is based on the assumption that all stack operations are performed on the NavigationStack. Of course setting

...
self.$presentingChild = false
...

will pop the corresponding view but the NavigationStack will not match the status of the app anymore.