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Swift 4 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift 4 Programming Cookbook 50 task-oriented recipes to maximise Swift 4 productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460899
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Keith Moon Keith Moon
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 2. Building on the Building Blocks 3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow 4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types 5. Beyond the Standard Library 6. Swift Playgrounds 7. Server-Side Swift 8. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

Building a REST API using Vapor

One of the main use cases for server-side Swift is for building REST APIs. Interacting with network data is a key function of almost any app, and until now that server-side component had to be built by someone else with the relevant server-side skills, or required an app developer to frequently switch between programming languages and development environments to build both the client-side, and the server-side code in the app.

Swift on the server opens the possibility for a developer to work on everything involved in the app, and move seamlessly between client-side and server-side.

Despite being in its infancy, there is already a vibrant community springing up around server-side Swift, with some impressive open source webserver frameworks from heavy hitters like IBM, in the form of their Kitura framework--http://www.kitura.io.

In this recipe, we...

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