In the previous chapter, we went over how to make an iOS app using Xcode in pure Swift. We also covered different concepts in iOS development such as Model View Controller (MVC) pattern and how to build iOS apps using the models which contain the state of our app. We also went over how to use the controller to control the flow of our app, to add, delete, and rearrange items and shopping lists. We also covered how to configure the views in storyboard to define the look and feel of the app, such as the navigation bar to table view cells. We also used some of the elegant syntax provided by Swift to help us aggregate all of the changes to our models and use a consistent method to save the state of the application, so that it can be easily restored using extensions built in the Array class, codable protocol, UserDefaults, and Swift's didSet...
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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift
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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift
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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 (13 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Server Swift
Creating the Native App
Getting Started with Vapor
Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Databases
Building a REST API using Vapor
Consuming API in App
Creating Web Views and Middleware
Testing and CI
Deploying the App
Adding Authentication
Building a tvOS App
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