Let’s say you’re building an app called LyricList, a place where people can save and organize their favorite song lyrics. The app has two main screens: a list of saved lyrics and a detail view for each lyric. So how do we let users tap on a lyric and jump to the detail screen?
Enter NavigationLink.
This little SwiftUI gem is like a portal. It sits there calmly, usually inside a List or a VStack, waiting for a user to tap. When they do, it quietly opens a new screen. No segues. No prepare(for segue:). No Storyboard drama. Just clean, simple, SwiftUI.
Let’s walk through it.
The Basics of NavigationLink
At its simplest, a NavigationLink needs two things: A destination (the screen to go to) and a label (what the user taps on).
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Here’s what’s happening:
We wrap everything in NavigationStack
Inside the List, each lyric line becomes a NavigationLink.
When tapped, it slides us over to LyricDetailView, passing the…
