Installing Vapor

Now it is time to install Vapor onto your machine. Let's make sure that you have all you need. It is essential that you use an up-to-date system in order for Swift and Vapor to function correctly. I am assuming that you are working on a macOS computer for this book. Everything server-related should also work fine on a Linux machine, though.

Prerequisites

Make sure that you have the following setup already in place:

• macOS Mojave or newer
• Xcode 10.2 or newer
• Homebrew: If you have not installed Homebrew, then go ahead and install it as described here: https://brew.sh/

You could use Linux (Ubuntu) as well; this book assumes you are using macOS, though. The only difference is that Xcode does not exist for...