Backend development

We want to develop a very simple backend for a Todo application. Please note that Vapor is in active development and our backend application will need regular updates to keep up. Therefore, our GitHub (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Swift-Functional-Programming) repository will be updated frequently.

Model

We will start by creating our model. The code is as follows:

import Vapor 
import Fluent 

final class Todo: Model { 
    var id: Node? 
    var todoId: Int 
    var name: String 
    var description: String 
    var notes: String 
    var completed: Bool 
    var synced: Bool 

    var exists: Bool = false 

    init(node: Node, in context: Context) throws { 
        id = try node.extract("id") 
        todoId = try node.extract("todoId...