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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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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

Adding custom routes in a Kitura project

Kitura offers powerful route-handling features similar to what you've learned about in the previous Vapor project. All Kitura versions since Kitura 2.0 take advantage of Codable in Swift 4.1 for JSON encoding and parsing, in a way similar to Content type in Vapor. In previous versions prior to Kitura 2.0, you would need to use a third-party library such as SwiftyJSON and write more tedious code for JSON encoding and decoding.

Just as Codable routing dramatically simplifies the handling of JSON-encoded data from a client's HTTP requests in the server, Kitura also provides a connector called KituraKit that mirrors Codable routing in the implementation of a client. With KituraKit, it simplifies the programming for JSON encoding and decoding via a concept called a client/server Contract.

Next, you'll conform your data model to...

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