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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

By : Angus Yeung
Book Image

Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

By: Angus Yeung

Overview of this book

This book is about building professional web applications and web services using Swift 4.0 and leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5. In the first part of this book, we’ll focus on the creation of basic web applications from Vapor and Kitura boilerplate projects. As the web apps start out simple, more useful techniques, such as unit test development, debugging, logging, and the build and release process, will be introduced to readers. In the second part, we’ll learn different aspects of web application development with server-side Swift, including setting up routes and controllers to process custom client requests, working with template engines such as Leaf and Stencil to create dynamic web content, beautifying the content with Bootstrap, managing user access with authentication framework, and leveraging the Object Relational Mapping (ORM) abstraction layer (Vapor’s Fluent and Kitura’s Kuery) to perform database operations. Finally, in the third part, we’ll develop web services in Swift and build our API Gateway, microservices and database backend in a three-tier architecture design. Readers will learn how to design RESTful APIs, work with asynchronous processes, and leverage container technology such as Docker in deploying microservices to cloud hosting services such as Vapor Cloud and IBM Cloud.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Hooking up new functionalities for UI items

Select the Assistant Editor from the top-right menu tray to lay out the storyboard and the EntryDetailsViewController.swift file side by side.

While holding down the Ctrl key, click on the Done button and drag it to the line under the declaration of the EntryDetailsViewController class. A Connection context menu appears. Create an IBOutlet and specify the name to be entryTitle:

Follow the same steps to create an IBOutlet for entryContent.

The two IBOutlet fields should be created and connected to the corresponding bar button items:

class EntryDetailsViewController : UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var entryTitle: UITextField!
@IBOutlet weak var entryContent: UITextView!
}

In the same EntryDetailsViewController class, add a reference to EntryDetailsViewControllerDelegate:

weak var delegate : EntryDetailsViewControllerDelegate...