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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

Summary


Well done! If you have made it this far. By now, you should have a good understanding of how to persist data in Vapor applications. You should now know what Providers are and how they work because you just made one. Also, you should know how to use a provider and be familiar with the steps we need to take when adding any kind of Provider. You should also know how Fluent works and how Vapor uses Fluent's awesome APIs to make it easy to write code to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) items from the database. You should have an understanding of databases and MongoDB and how to get started with it, and also how to log in to the database to query and modify data directly in the database.

In the next chapter, we will go over controllers in more detail. Towards the end of this chapter, we did touch upon PostController to look at how the /posts route is able to give us back data for all of the posts that are saved in the database. In the next chapter, we will learn about a RESTful resource...