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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

Deleting a Shopping List


To delete a Shopping List is similar to adding. We need to define a new delete method on the Shopping List class. In that method, make a DELETE request to the /shopping_lists/:id endpoint where :id is the ID of our Shopping List model. We already have to delete implemented in our Table View Controller but we need to invoke this new delete method from our Table View Controller, and, on a successful DELETE request to our API server, we need to update the Table View by reloading it. To add the delete functionality, we need to follow these steps:

  1. Open the ShoppingList.swift file from our iOS project and add the following delete method to the class. In this method, we make the request by specifying the DELETE HTTP method and also pass the id of the Shopping List we want to delete in the URL. On completion, we call the onCompletion closure function passed as part of the delete method invocation:
func delete(onCompletion: @escaping () -> Void) {
  request(url: "/shopping_lists...