In this chapter, you learned how to use web authentication to secure routes with protected content in your Vapor web application. To do that, you created a new data model for administrative accounts and added routes and templates to manage the accounts. With this account-management feature, you were able to grant administrative rights to some users or provoke the rights later. Now only a specific group of users will be able to create, edit, or delete a journal entry with their credentials. Then, you worked on the same web authentication framework to secure all the routes under the /journal path. This chapter concludes your myJournal web application. In the next chapter, we will look at how to build more advanced web services.
Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift
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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift
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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)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introducing Server-Side Swift
Getting Started with Vapor and Kitura
Building Your First Web App
Debugging and Testing
Setting Up Routes and Controllers
Working with Template Engines
Bootstrapping Your Design
Employing Storage Framework
Adding Authentication
Understanding Technologies for Web Services
Designing for API Gateway
Deploying to the Cloud
Developing an iPhone Client
Developing Microservices
Vapor Boilerplate Project
Kitura Boilerplate Project
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