Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

Create distributed, large scale web and mobile applications About This Book * Build, package, and deploy an end to end app solution for mobile and web with Swift 4 * Increase the developer productivity by creating reusable client and server components * Get a good grasp of Swift, Server Side frameworks and Vapor with help of this book Who This Book Is For This book is intended for developers familiar with Swift and web development on the client side and want to build both a full stack web application along with a native mobile application using Swift and Vapor framework. Understanding of how HTML and CSS work and knowledge on JavaScript would be helpful when building server rendered pages with Vapor. What You Will Learn * Get accustomed with Server Side and Vapor framework * Learn how to build a RESTful API * Make network request from the app and learn how to handle error states when network request fails. * Deploy app to the heroku using the CLI command * Write test for the Vapor backend * Create a tvOS version of the Shopping List App and demonstrate code shareability with iOS platform * Add registration and authentication so each user can have their own Shopping lists In Detail With the release of Swift 3, the language was open sourced and was able to be run on Linux opening up the opportunity to write server side code in Swift. Sharing code between a native app and the server while building scalable, secure and sound server backend, opens up the language to new possibilities of building an entire application solution written in one language, Swift. The book will dive into details on how to create a native app along with a full stack backend using Vapor that serves as a API server for the mobile app as well as a web server to serve dynamic web pages to the browser to create a rich application experience. The book will start out by going over the idea for the app and building a native iOS app using Swift. The app will work without connecting to any services but we will then build out the web service needed for the mobile app by creating RESTful API that the app would use to fetch and save data. We will also build out web pages and create web views of our native app using Vapor to show how you can build an entire full stack web application along with an API server for our native mobile app. We will then learn how to deploy this app to the cloud and the advance topics cover how to add registration and authentication. The book will wrap up with building a tvOS version of the Shopping List app and demonstrate how easy it is to create an app for a different platform with maximum code shareability with the iOS platform making network request to our API server building using Vapor and Swift. With this book you will learn how to create an entire app solution for different platforms in Swift increasing developers productivity and happiness while not sacrificing application's performance.