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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

Features of our Shopping List app


The app we will be building is a simple Shopping List app. It is a general-purpose Shopping List app that allows users to add items to their list and check items from the list. The following is the full list of features for our app:

  • Users will be able to add Shopping List Items
  • They will be able to enter details about the items, such as the item name
  • The item can be checked to mark it as bought
  • Users will be able to view all of the items entered in the Shopping List, rearrange them, and even delete them
  • Users will be able to have more than one Shopping List and move items between Shopping Lists
  • The app will persist the data and load the Shopping Lists and their items whenever the app starts
  • Users will be able to filter the Shopping List based on items that are not checked and also be able to search for items in the list based on their names
  • Users can update the list from any device and it will get synced