The goal of the book is to try to help guide you into the world of full stack Swift development by building a frontend in both a mobile and browser app. Throughout this book, we will try to work on building a Shopping List App. The final product will consist of the following components:
- Native mobile app written in Swift for iOS
- API backend written in Swift using Vapor
- Frontend web app built using HTML rendered by Vapor, along with JavaScript and CSS for client-side interaction and styling
We will begin by building out the native application, and then proceed to building the backend for the app and integrate the app with the API. Then we will focus on rendering web views and adding authentication for both the API and the web app. Toward the end of the book, we will look at how to add real-time updates using web sockets in these apps and also try to build a simple chat application using Swift and Vapor.
