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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

By : Angus Yeung
Book Image

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)

Developing an iPhone Client

This chapter puts everything you've learned so far about server-side Swift together and uses an iOS app to show how a client "travel journal" app can leverage the login, database, and other cloud services you built with a Swift web framework. You'll first get started with building a travel journal iOS app, adding logic and UI components to the app design. You'll create a model for journal data and add the support of CRUD operations for the PostgreSQL database on the server. At the end of this chapter, you'll have a functional travel journal app that works seamlessly with your web services.

You're going to have learned about the following topics after finishing this chapter:

  • Creating a table view controller in an iOS application
  • Constructing a data model using the Codable protocol
  • Adding content to the table view controller...