@ViewBuilder doesn't seem to be needed on body in chapter 8

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The code seems to work and compile without adding @ViewBuilder to the body property when using the environment to check the vertical size class. Is this no longer necessary?

2

That’s correct — it seems redundant now. If you look at the View protocol, you can notice that now the body properly has that modifier already applied:

@ViewBuilder var body: Self.Body { get }

I presume earlier versions of SwiftUI didn’t use that attribute, so you had to manually add yourself whenever needed.

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Yes, I also found this in Chapter 7, but I don’t know since which SwiftUI version it is available.
And there is an article explaining this as well: https://www.avanderlee.com/swiftui/viewbuilder/