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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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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

Building a Vapor application from scratch

Before we start creating Vapor applications using the Vapor toolbox, which is an awesome tool provided by the Vapor team, let's see the minimal amount of code needed to create a Vapor application from scratch using the Vapor package. To do so, we need to follow the following steps:

  1. Create a new Hello folder and open it in the Terminal.
  2. Then, initialize the Swift package by running the init command, and make it an executable type. This should generate the Sources folder and Test folder, and also create a Package.swift file:
$ swift package init --type executable
  1. Update the dependencies section in Package.swift to include Vapor as a dependency, and also include Vapor in the target dependency for the Hello target:
let package = Package(
name: "Hello",
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/vapor...
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