Bolding Text in SwiftUI

I've been testing out SwiftUI quite a bit lately, and it is giving me high hopes about the future of native development(although there are still a lot of rough edges). Today in this post I thought I'd write a quick note about making a Text widget use bold text instead of regular text.

It's actually not that complicated at all, all you need to do is add .bold(), and that's it. Here's a full example of this:

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1import SwiftUI
2
3struct BoldTextView : View {
4
5    var body: some View {
6        HStack {
7            Text("Bold Text").bold()
8        }
9    }
10
11}
12
13struct BoldTextView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
14    static var previews: some View {
15        BoldTextView()
16    }
17}

And there you have it, the text will be bold...I kind of like how this works. In Flutter you have to add a TextStyle to the Text and it can be kind of cumbersome sometimes as you add more and more properties. It's still taking me a while to get used to indentation in SwiftUI but.