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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)

Adding custom routes in a Vapor project

In a typical model–view–controller architecture, you'll consciously separate data from the controller code that handles the data and from the view that represents a snapshot of the data. The data structure of your custom data is defined by its model. Routes are the endpoints for a client to query for the data:

Component Usage Recommended path in Vapor
Model Description of data Sources/App/Models/
View Representation of data Resources/Views/
Controller Business logic of data Sources/App/Controllers
Routes Endpoints for data querying Sources/App/Routes

In this chapter, you'll learn how to define the model of custom data used in a new application called myJournal, which is a server-side Swift power web application for personal journals.

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