Hands-on full-stack development with Swift : develop full-stack web and native mobile applications using Swift and Vapor / Ankur Patel.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Patel, Ankur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• iOS (Electronic resource).
• Swift (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

Swift, with server-side coding, has become the future of native app development not only on iOS but for watchOS and tvOS. This book will show you how to create a native shopping list app along with a Full-Stack backend using Vapor. Vapor will serve as an API server for the mobile app and also as a web server to serve dynamic web pages to the.

Contents:

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Dedication
• Packt Upsell
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Server Swift
• Modern app development
• Swift's evolution
• Open source
• Server-side Swift
• Benefits of server-side Swift
• Getting started with Swift package manager
• Building a Swift package
• Publishing a Swift package
• Consuming a Swift package
• Installing the package's executable
• How do the web servers work?
• User requesting a web page
• Mobile application requesting data
• HTTP request and response
• Building a web server in Swift
• Server-side web frameworks
• Vapor
• Book roadmap
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Creating the Native App
• Features of our Shopping List app
• Creating an app
• Blueprinting the Shopping List Item model
• Exercise
• Exercise answer
• Controlling the flow of our application using View Controller
• Wiring up the view
• Table View Controller
• Adding items to the list
• Editing the list
• Loading and auto-saving the Shopping List
• Multiple lists
• Refactoring to share code
• Blueprinting the Shopping List Model
• The Shopping List Table View Controller
• Chapter 3: Getting Started with Vapor
• What is Vapor?
• Building servers using Vapor's engine
• Building a basic HTTP server
• Building a static file server
• Building a WebSocket server
• Building a Vapor application from scratch
• Vapor toolbox
• Installing the Vapor toolbox
• Vapor toolbox commands
• Creating a Vapor application using the toolbox
• Vapor folder structure
• Vapor config
• Vapor droplet
• Views
• Controllers
• Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Chapter 4: Databases
• Shopping List API Vapor app
• What are Providers?
• Building your first Provider
• Exercise time
• Adding a Provider.
• Getting started with databases
• What is MongoDB?
• How to install and run MongoDB
• What are ORM and Fluent?
• Fluent in action
• Creating an item
• Updating an item
• Getting all items
• Finding an item
• Finding items using filter
• Deleting an item
• Counting items
• Relations in Fluent
• One to one (parent-child relation)
• One to many
• Many to many
• Connecting with MongoDB
• Configuring Fluent config
• Mongo config - mongo.json
• Adding MongoProvider
• Chapter 5: Building a REST API using Vapor
• Routing in Vapor
• HTTP methods
• Routers
• Nested routing
• Dynamic routing
• Wildcard routing
• Routing parameters
• Vapor Models
• The Shopping List Model
• Preparation protocol
• JSONConvertible protocol
• ResponseRepresentable protocol
• Updateable protocol
• Item Model
• Controllers in Vapor
• RESTful Controller
• Shopping List controller
• REST API in action
• Creating the Shopping List
• Getting the Shopping List
• Updating the Shopping List
• Deleting the Shopping List
• Creating items
• Chapter 6: Consuming API in App
• Xcode Workspace
• Making network requests
• Network configuration
• Request helper
• Fetching data from the server
• Debugging the app and server side by side
• Adding a Shopping List
• Deleting a Shopping List
• Adding a Shopping List Item
• Checking and unchecking an item
• Chapter 7: Creating Web Views and Middleware
• View rendering in Vapor app
• What is Leaf?
• Adding Leaf Provider
• Serving JSON and HTML formats
• Creating a middleware
• Creating a BaseResourceController
• Adding JavaScript
• Creating a new Shopping List
• Adding an Item
• Deleting an Item
• Checking and unchecking an Item
• Chapter 8: Testing and CI.
• Testing the Vapor application
• Setting up the test environment
• Running tests
• Testing RESTful routes
• Fetching all Shopping Lists
• Creating a Shopping List
• Automated testing pipeline
• Enabling Travis build check on Pull request
• Chapter 9: Deploying the App
• Where can we deploy a Vapor App?
• Deploying to Heroku
• Priming the app for deployment
• Configuring and deploying Vapor to Heroku
• Adding the MongoDB Heroku addon
• Setting up Continuous Deployment
• Chapter 10: Adding Authentication
• Creating a User model
• Best practices for storing password
• Getting started with the User model
• User has many Shopping Lists
• Adding Registration and Login
• Showing user specific Shopping Lists
• Adding token-based authentication for app
• Testing the token-based authentication
• Adding authentication flow to iOS app
• Bringing it all together in the Storyboard
• Chapter 11: Building a tvOS App
• Shopping List app on tvOS
• Sharing code between iOS and tvOS
• Making code work with both iOS and tvOS apps
• Configuring the tvOS storyboard
• Other Books You May Enjoy
• Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781788626279
• 1788626273