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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

Adding Registration and Login


To add Registration and Login web pages is as simple as setting up a route in our Routes.swift and creating a Leaf template file that will render the HTML forms. For our Leaf template, we will need to create a signup form for the new user and a login form for users that have registered already. To get started with adding these forms to our Vapor app, we need to follow these steps:

  1. First, open the Routes.swift file and remove everything inside the setupRoutes method as we will be setting up two kinds of routes, one for authenticated users and another for unauthenticated.
  2. Next, import the AuthProvider and Sessions dependencies that we will need later by adding the following two lines to the top of the file:
import AuthProvider
import Sessions
  1. Next, inside the setupRoutes method, add the following two methods that we will define soon:
func setupRoutes() throws {
  self.setupUnauthenticatedRoutes()
  self.setupAuthenticatedRoutes()
}
  1. Now, let's define the setupUnauthenticatedRoutes...