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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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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

Using the Leaf templating engine in Vapor

Leaf is Vapor's official templating engine and it was created specifically for Vapor. With the template engine, you'll find it easy to pass information from the Swift source code to the Leaf template. The compiled templating source code will then be used to render the final HTML content automatically for you.

There are many different reasons for using a template language. First, you can use templates to help reuse code that's shared across multiple web pages. Next, you can use various tagging syntax to help generate code dynamically and programmatically. Finally, you can embed one template into another and doing so helps you accelerate the development of content.

You will continue the myJournal project from the previous chapter and use the Leaf template engine to enhance the project's features.

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