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Customizing our UIViewRepresentable and coordinators

Now that we've got the basics up and running, we'll take a closer look at our TextView in TextHelper.swift. You'll see a very similar pattern to what we had previously but with some added extras – don't worry about these; we'll go through them very shortly. For now, let's start by taking a closer look at our makeUIView() function. Notice that we've got a lot more going on in there than our previous example:

func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UITextView {    let textView = UITextView()    textView.delegate = context.coordinator    textView.font = UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body)    textView.isScrollEnabled = true    textView.isEditable = true    textView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true return textView ...