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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


If you have made it this far, then great job! You have not only created an API server using Swift but also built a network-based iOS application that uses the API you built to load and save data. There are a few things we can improve in the app, such as having better error handling, as we have not taken care of a situation where there is no network connection or there is a bad network taking the network request a long time to return. Nevertheless, you should have a good understanding of how to make a network request from your iOS application and make different kinds of HTTP requests, such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. You should also have a better grasp on how to convert Swift class objects to JSON data to send to our API server, and convert JSON data from the API response into Swift class objects to be used in our iOS code. This has become a lot easier, starting with Swift 4, due to the codable protocol and CodingKeys, which helped map out keys from the JSON object to attributes...