How to do it...

1. Open Xcode and select File | New | Playground, then select Blank in order to open a new Playground canvas to work from.
2. Once open, add in the following syntax:

import PlaygroundSupport
import SwiftUI

The first import statement we've seen before and should be familiar with already. The next is our one for SwiftUI—pretty self-explanatory as to why we need this.

3. Now, let's create a view in SwiftUI by adding in the following highlighted code:

import PlaygroundSupport
import SwiftUI

struct MyView: View {
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            Text("Swift Cookbook")
        }
    }
}

All SwiftUI views are built in a struct that conforms to the View type—this then houses another struct, which looks a bit like a computed property called body, which in turn conforms to some View. Inside this property—or "function builder", as it's known (which we'll touch on later in this chapter)—we have certain...