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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

Adding Leaf Provider


To add Leaf-rendering support to our Vapor application, we will need to use Leaf Provider. It uses the same Leaf package under the hood, but implements Vapor's Provider protocol so that it can be used without writing much code and specifying it as our view renderer in the droplet.json config. To add Leaf Provider to our Vapor app, we will need to perform the following steps:

  1. Open up our ShoppingListServer Xcode project and add leaf-provider as a dependency inside our Package.swift:
.package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/leaf-provider.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "1.1.0")),
  1. Next, specify it as a dependency for our App target:
.target(name: "App", dependencies: ["Vapor", "FluentProvider", "HealthcheckProvider", "MongoProvider", "LeafProvider"],
  1. Now, open up the Config+Setup.swift file and import the LeafProvider by specifying it on the top of the file:
import LeafProvider
  1. Now, we will need to add the LeafProvider to our app. We can do this by adding the following line in our setupProviders...
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