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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

By : Ankur Patel
Book Image

Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

By: Ankur Patel

Overview of this book

Making Swift an open-source language enabled it to share code between a native app and a server. Building a scalable and secure server backend opens up new possibilities, such as building an entire application written in one language—Swift. This book gives you a detailed walk-through of tasks such as developing a native shopping list app with Swift and creating a full-stack backend using Vapor (which serves as an API server for the mobile app). You'll also discover how to build a web server to support dynamic web pages in browsers, thereby creating a rich application experience. You’ll begin by planning and then building a native iOS app using Swift. Then, you'll get to grips with building web pages and creating web views of your native app using Vapor. To put things into perspective, you'll learn how to build an entire full-stack web application and an API server for your native mobile app, followed by learning how to deploy the app to the cloud, and add registration and authentication to it. Once you get acquainted with creating applications, you'll build a tvOS version of the shopping list app and explore how easy is it to create an app for a different platform with maximum code shareability. Towards the end, you’ll also learn how to create an entire app for different platforms in Swift, thus enhancing your productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered a lot of topics. We not only transformed our backend, but also both our web and native iOS frontend views that communicate with the backend. By now, you should have a good understanding of how to add User model to a Vapor application to make the app multiuser. You should also have a good background on how to store user information, including passwords, and how the authentication and persistence of session works in the browser after authentication. Lastly, you should know how to add token-based authentication to a Vapor app and how the token-based authentication works and the steps involved in it. In iOS land, we also covered how to conditionally load a Login View and store and make requests to the server using the token. There are still few things we did not cover, which include adding a registration view in the iOS app to register if a user does not have an account already, but you can implement it as an extra credit exercise.

In the next chapter, we will...