Book Image

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

Where can we deploy a Vapor App?


Vapor applications can be deployed anywhere we can run Swift. Currently, Swift only runs on macOS and Ubuntu distribution of Linux. There are multiple options when it comes to where to deploy your Vapor App. You can deploy your Vapor app on a dedicated physical machine or a virtual machine, but the hassle of setting it up and maintaining the server machine yourself can be cumbersome.

You can also deploy your Vapor app to a cloud service provider, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, or Vapor Cloud. These companies provide Platform as a Service (PaaS), where you do not need to configure the OS to install the required dependencies and instead, just specify the version of Swift and other services you need, such as MongoDB, and it will provide you with those so that your Vapor app can run without a lot of configuration. This also allows you to not have to worry about figuring out what hardware you need upfront, as you can scale the hardware easily with...