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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

Debugging the app and server side by side


One of the benefits of using Xcode and Swift for both frontend and backend development is the ability to develop and debug both iOS and Vapor apps at the same time. To see this in action we need to do the following: 

  1. Open ShoppingListController.swift in the server project and put a breakpoint by clicking on the line number that is inside the index method, as follows:
  1. Go to the ShoppingList.swift model in our iOS project and click on the line inside the completion handler of the request so we can inspect the response we get back from the server, as follows:
  1. Trigger a request to fetch the data again from the app by pulling down on the table view:

Once you have triggered a refresh by pulling down on the table view, you would have seen the Xcode pause execution at the line where we put the breakpoint in the index method of the Shopping List controller. Here we can inspect the req and print objects in the console, if needed, to help us debug an issue and...

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