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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

Creating an app

To create an app, you will need to have Xcode installed. You can get it from Apple's App Store. Once you open Xcode, you will be greeted with the Welcome to Xcode modal. This is where you will see your most recent projects:

We will get started by selecting the Create a new Xcode project option from the dialog. If you want to just explore Swift language, you can select Get started with a playground.

Playgrounds are a hybrid between a text editor for Swift code and a code runner where you can see the result of your code as you type, making it easy to learn the language or try out something quickly.

This will open another dialog where we will be prompted to select the template for our project. There are several templates to choose from, but for our app, the Single View App is a good template to begin with:

Give your app a name and make sure the language...

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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788625241
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