Building a SwiftUI with Ghibli API

the project was build with the following:

• iOS 26+
• SwiftUI with Observation feature for better performance
• URLSession with async/await
• MVVM with service layer
• testing with Swift Testing

API documentation for Studio Ghibli:

• base URL: https://ghibliapi.vercel.app/
• endpoints used: /films /people
• no authentication required

Features of the Reference Project

• TabView with Navigation Stacks
• List Screen (fetch from API, show list of items).
• Detail Screen (display more info, async image loading).

• Favorites (local persistence).

• Search (filter + async debounce).

• Settings (theme, stored in UserDefaults).

• testing, mocks, & dependency injection