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Swift 4 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from Swift 4 Programming Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460899

Pages 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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iOS Development

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Swift Building Blocks

2. Building on the Building Blocks

3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow

4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types

5. Beyond the Standard Library

6. Swift Playgrounds

7. Server-Side Swift

8. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

Building a REST API using Vapor

One of the main use cases for server-side Swift is for building REST APIs. Interacting with network data is a key function of almost any app, and until now that server-side component had to be built by someone else with the relevant server-side skills, or required an app developer to frequently switch between programming languages and development environments to build both the client-side, and the server-side code in the app.

Swift on the server opens the possibility for a developer to work on everything involved in the app, and move seamlessly between client-side and server-side.

Despite being in its infancy, there is already a vibrant community springing up around server-side Swift, with some impressive open source webserver frameworks from heavy hitters like IBM, in the form of their Kitura framework--http://www.kitura.io.

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