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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

Shopping List API Vapor app


We will start with a new Vapor application, which will act as an API server for our iOS application. We will keep building on top of this application in the next few chapters to learn about different aspects of Vapor; towards the end, we will have a fully functional server that will serve as both an API and a web server, showing our Shopping List on the iOS app and also on the web.

To get started, we will begin with an official API template provided by Vapor. We will follow the following steps to Bootstrap our project and start coding it using Xcode:

  1. Open the Terminal and create a new API based Vapor application using the toolbox:
$ vapor new ShoppingListServer --template=ankurp/api-template
  1. This will create the new application based on the API template. Go into this folder in the Terminal and create an Xcode project file using the following command:
$ vapor xcode -y
  1. The preceding command will create an Xcode project file for the Vapor application and open up the Xcode...
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