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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

Where can we deploy a Vapor App?


Vapor applications can be deployed anywhere we can run Swift. Currently, Swift only runs on macOS and Ubuntu distribution of Linux. There are multiple options when it comes to where to deploy your Vapor App. You can deploy your Vapor app on a dedicated physical machine or a virtual machine, but the hassle of setting it up and maintaining the server machine yourself can be cumbersome.

You can also deploy your Vapor app to a cloud service provider, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, or Vapor Cloud. These companies provide Platform as a Service (PaaS), where you do not need to configure the OS to install the required dependencies and instead, just specify the version of Swift and other services you need, such as MongoDB, and it will provide you with those so that your Vapor app can run without a lot of configuration. This also allows you to not have to worry about figuring out what hardware you need upfront, as you can scale the hardware easily with...

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