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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift Develop full-stack web and native mobile applications using Swift and Vapor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625241
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ankur Patel Ankur Patel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Server Swift 2. Creating the Native App FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Vapor 4. Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Databases 5. Building a REST API using Vapor 6. Consuming API in App 7. Creating Web Views and Middleware 8. Testing and CI 9. Deploying the App 10. Adding Authentication 11. Building a tvOS App 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making network requests


To get our app to communicate with the internet, we need to make a few changes. By default, in the newer version of the iOS, HTTP network requests that are not secure as HTTPs are blocked unless we explicitly tell them to allow it. Since we will be making network requests to our Vapor app, which is running locally as HTTP and not HTTPs, we need to set this in the Info.plist file of the iOS project. We will also add one more configuration to store the base URL of our Vapor server in this Info.plist, so we can reference it from one place.

Network configuration

To add the previously mentioned two configurations, we need to follow these steps:

  1. Open the Info.plist file and click on the small + icon that appears when you hover over the Information Property List toward the top of this file:
  2. This will create a new entry in this property list file. Type NSAppTransportSecurity and press Enter. This will change the text to App Transport Security Settings:
  3. Hover over the App Transport...
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