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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Overview of this book

The capabilities of the Swift programming language are extended to server-side development using popular frameworks such as Vapor. This enables Swift programmers to implement the microservices approach to design scalable and easy-to-maintain architecture for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and watchOS applications. This book is a complete guide to building microservices for iOS applications. You’ll start by examining Swift and Vapor as backend technologies and compare them to their alternatives. The book then covers the concept of microservices to help you get started with developing your first microservice. Throughout this book, you’ll work on a case study of writing an e-commerce backend as a microservice application. You’ll understand each microservice as it is broken down into details and written out as code throughout the book. You’ll also become familiar with various aspects of server-side development such as scalability, database options, and information flow for microservices that are unwrapped in the process. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with microservices testing and see how it is different from testing a monolith application. Along the way, you’ll explore tools such as Docker, Postman, and Amazon Web Services. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build a ready-to-deploy application that can be used as a base for future applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Understanding unit tests

Let's start with the most often-discussed way of testing software: unit tests. You are most likely familiar with them: they are based on the concept of testing one function at a time and making sure it reacts correctly to every possible and reasonable input. This way of testing is essential when we develop individual functions that have a great impact on the microservice. So, if we have a function that performs some major logical implementation in our application, this is certainly the most reliable way to ensure it works correctly.

Let's look at the following topics:

  • Defining unit tests
  • Setting up Xcode
  • Unit tests for microservices

Okay, are you ready to dive into this? Let's get started with unit tests!

Defining unit tests

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