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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

Blueprinting the Shopping List Item model


Now that we understand the files and folders in our projects a little bit, let's start writing some code. We will begin by writing code for our first model, the Shopping List Item. To do so, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new group called Models under the ShoppingList folder in your project.
  2. Then right-click and click on New File... under the Models folder and select a Swift file from the iOS template. Call this new file Item.swift and click Create.

 

  1. Copy the following code into the Item.swift file:
import UIKit
class Item {
    var name: String
    var isChecked: Bool
    init(name: String, isChecked: Bool = false) {
        self.name = name
        self.isChecked = isChecked
    }
}

Let's go over the code in more detail:

We define a class calledItemwhich will serve as a blueprint for our Shopping List Items:

class Item {

We then define two properties to store a name for the item and the state of the item on whether it is checked or unchecked. These...