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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift Develop full-stack web and native mobile applications using Swift and Vapor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625241
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ankur Patel Ankur Patel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Server Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating the Native App 3. Getting Started with Vapor 4. Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Databases 5. Building a REST API using Vapor 6. Consuming API in App 7. Creating Web Views and Middleware 8. Testing and CI 9. Deploying the App 10. Adding Authentication 11. Building a tvOS App 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is Vapor?

Vapor is a Swift package that provides the APIs to build a web application. It consists of several Swift packages, and, contrary to what most people might think, Vapor is not a monolithic Swift package. It is rather small and modular, consisting of several Swift packages that are stitched together to create a very rich web framework. The Swift packages it depends on are created by the Vapor team and grouped together based on their functionality. So, anyone who wants to build their own web framework in Swift can do so by consuming these packages. Vapor is broken down into the following packages:

  • core: The core package contains core extensions, type-aliases, and functions that facilitate common tasks
  • bits: This is a small package to help deal with bytes
  • debugging: This package aids Vapor users in better debugging around the framework
  • random: This package...
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