Our Vapor server now looks great and renders a beautiful web page, but, at the present, is not very functional. It has an add link and a cross button to delete a Shopping List and an item, but none of these work. The reason is because we have not written code to do anything when a user clicks on the link or on the delete button. To add this functionality, we will need to write some JavaScript. We have created an app.js
file, but it is currently empty. So let's see how we can add the same functionality as our native iOS app to add, edit, and delete a Shopping List and its items. We will use jQuery, which is a popular JavaScript library that we have included in our base.leaf
template to help us achieve dynamic behavior in our web app. In the following section, we will look at the code snippets that we need to add to our app.js
file to add a similar functionality as our iOS app to our web app.
Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift
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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift
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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
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Server Swift
Creating the Native App
Getting Started with Vapor
Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Databases
Building a REST API using Vapor
Consuming API in App
Creating Web Views and Middleware
Testing and CI
Deploying the App
Adding Authentication
Building a tvOS App
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Index
Customer Reviews