Implementing API endpoints for Kitura

Kitura takes full advantage of the Codable protocol introduced in Swift 4.0. For Codable routes, you can create router an endpoint method that accepts a Codable object for the request and uses a completion closure to pass a Codable object as the response.

As you'll see in the following source code, Kitura's Codable routers can simplify the creation of a CRUD API and the handling of JSON objects.

Creating a new project for the Kitura web service application

Create a new Kitura project using the CLI command in a new directory:

$ kitura init

Add the dependencies for the Kuery ORM framework and PostgreSQL driver:

// swift-tools-version:4.0
import PackageDescription

let package = Package...