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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

You're reading from   Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift Build dynamic web apps by leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341171
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Angus Yeung Angus Yeung
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Server-Side Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Vapor and Kitura 3. Building Your First Web App 4. Debugging and Testing 5. Setting Up Routes and Controllers 6. Working with Template Engines 7. Bootstrapping Your Design 8. Employing Storage Framework 9. Adding Authentication 10. Understanding Technologies for Web Services 11. Designing for API Gateway 12. Deploying to the Cloud 13. Developing an iPhone Client 14. Developing Microservices 15. Vapor Boilerplate Project 16. Kitura Boilerplate Project 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Debugging and Testing

A seasonal developer spends far more time on debugging and testing code than writing code, in a typical software project. This chapter introduces the basics of writing tests for a server-side Swift project and recommends the best practice in debugging server-side Swift code. When it comes to a web development framework, both the Vapor and Kitura frameworks offer very good testing and debugging support. You are going to learn how to use the test framework in Swift and logging features in Vapor and Kitura to help debugging and error-proofing your code.

This chapter covers writing tests for server-side Swift projects as well as debugging in server-side Swift.

The following is a list of topics on debugging for server-side Swift:

  • Using the Logging API in a Vapor project
  • Using the Logger API in a Kitura project
  • Debugging using the HTTP traffic monitoring tool...
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