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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

By : Angus Yeung
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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)

Deploying to the Cloud

In this chapter, you'll learn how to deploy your web services to the cloud. You'll get introduced to four hosted cloud solutions: Vapor Cloud and IBM Cloud (Bluemix). Vapor Cloud is the official hosting service for Vapor and there is built-in support in Vapor CLI to let you deploy and manage your Vapor instance easily without installing additional libraries and tools. Similarly, IBM Cloud is a natural choice for a hosted solution for Kitura web service since both of them are part of IBM cloud solutions.

You'll have the following knowledge after finishing this chapter:

  • Getting familiar with the features offered in Vapor Cloud
  • Having hands-on experience with deploying a sample project to Vapor Cloud
  • Knowing how to monitor and manage your deployed applications on Vapor Cloud
  • Getting familiar with IBM Cloud and its offered features for Kitura...