Comparing Vapor to Kitura, Perfect, and Smoke

In this section, you are going to learn a few key differences between Vapor and the other Swift frameworks. All frameworks are being used by various industries and players. Vapor does stand out as it emerged as a favorite on GitHub with having significantly more stars and active contributors than the other frameworks.

The three alternative Swift frameworks are as follows:

• Kitura
• Perfect
• Smoke

Let's explore each one of them.

Vapor and Kitura

Kitura started at around the same time as Vapor did, but it was, in fact, started by IBM. The most obvious and noteworthy difference between Vapor and Kitura is that Kitura is loosely modeled after the Express Javascript framework. Other...