"Server Side Swift with Vapor"
Vapor 3 + Swift 4

Prerequisites | Project Materials | API + Web Template | Resources

The "Server Side Swift with Vapor" video tutorial series is based on PostgreSQL, Swift 4 & Vapor 3. A completed project for the tutorial series is provided at raywenderlich/vapor-til.

The vapor-til-sqlite project replaces PostgreSQL with SQLite.

Prerequisites ▴

Install Xcode 10 ⇗. Swift 4.2 installs as part of Xcode 10. Launch Xcode to complete an initial installation.

Install Homebrew ⇗

Verify Swift Installation

# review script
curl -sL check.vapor.sh # review script
# run script
eval "$(curl -sL check.vapor.sh)"
# ✅  Xcode 10 is compatible with Vapor 2.
# ✅  Xcode 10 is compatible with Vapor 3.
# 
# ✅  Swift 4.2 is compatible with Vapor 2.
# ✅  Swift 4.2 is compatible with Vapor 3.

Install Vapor

Add Vapor Homebrew tap repository. Install Vapor's toolbox and dependencies. The Vapor Toolbox provides a CLI tool for creating new projects.

brew tap --full vapor/homebrew-tap
brew update
brew info vapor
brew install vapor

Resources ▴

• Codingpedia: How to test a REST api from command line with curl ⇗
• Lob REST API documentation: curl examples ⇗
• Medium: Deploying a Vapor web app on DigitalOcean ⇗ Benjamin Johnson
• Medium: Server side SWIFT: Vapor, MySQL, and NGINX with SSL-cert running on Ubuntu instance from DigitalOcean ⇗ Todd Shifflett
• SQLite Studio ⇗ open source database manager

API Tools

• FRequest home page ⇗, github ⇗ open source
• HTTPie home page ⇗, github ⇗ open source
• Postman ⇗ closed source. free or paid "Pro"
• RESTed: macOS App Store ⇗, home page ⇗ free, closed source

Deployment

• Heroku ⇗
• DigitalOcean ⇗
• Nginx ⇗
• Vapor Cloud ⇗

Front-end Frameworks

• Bootstrap ⇗
• Foundation ⇗
• Skeleton ⇗