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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

Vapor toolbox


So far, we have learned how to build web servers and a lightweight Vapor application using the swift package command. This is good for small-scale projects, but when we embark on building a production-ready application, we need more powerful tools that can generate, build, and run our server-side web application. Luckily, Vapor provides us with a command-line tool that makes it easy to create a new server-side web application by generating the files and folders needed for the Vapor application. This command-line tool can also build our Vapor application by installing our dependencies and then compiling our application, and can also run our application. This tool is also capable of deploying to the server. In short, the command-line interface provides shortcuts and assistance for common tasks with our Vapor application. This command-line tool is called the Vapor toolbox.

Installing the Vapor toolbox

To install the Vapor toolbox on macOS, all we need to do is follow these steps...