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

by Angus Yeung

Overview

This book is about building professional web applications and web services using Swift 4.0 and leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5. In the first part of this book, we’ll focus on the creation of basic web applications from Vapor and Kitura boilerplate projects. As the web apps start out simple, more useful techniques, such as unit test development, debugging, logging, and the build and release process, will be introduced to readers.
In the second part, we’ll learn different aspects of web application development with server-side Swift, including setting up routes and controllers to process custom client requests, working with template engines such as Leaf and Stencil to create dynamic web content, beautifying the content with Bootstrap, managing user access with authentication framework, and leveraging the Object Relational Mapping (ORM) abstraction layer (Vapor’s Fluent and Kitura’s Kuery) to perform database operations.
Finally, in the third part, we’ll develop web services in Swift and build our API Gateway, microservices and database backend in a three-tier architecture design. Readers will learn how to design RESTful APIs, work with asynchronous processes, and leverage container technology such as Docker in deploying microservices to cloud hosting services such as Vapor Cloud and IBM Cloud.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789345865
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	404
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Angus Yeung works for Intel Corp., responsible for the architectural design of back-end cloud services for virtual reality sports broadcasting. He is also a computer science lecturer at San Jose State University. Prior to Intel, he held CTO and engineering director positions in several companies including a start-up he founded in 2002. Angus' technical interests include mobile computing, distributed computing, computer vision and artificial intelligence. He holds BS, MS and PHD in Electrical Engineering from Univ. of Rochester, and MBA from UC Berkeley. Angus owns 18 pending and granted patents. Angus lives with his lovely wife and three handsome boys in Palo Alto, California.
Angus Yeung works for Intel, and is responsible for the architectural design of backend cloud services for virtual reality sports broadcasting. He is also a computer science lecturer at San Jose State University. Prior to Intel, he held CTO and engineering director positions at several companies, including a start-up he founded in 2002. Angus' technical interests include mobile computing, distributed computing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. He holds an BS, MS, and PHD in Electrical Engineering from Univ. of Rochester, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Angus owns 18 pending and granted patents. Angus lives with his lovely wife and three handsome boys in Palo Alto, California.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Server-Side Swift
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. Appendix A
16. Appendix B