Condon Tim et al. Server Side Swift with Vapor: Building Web APIs and Web Apps in Swift

3rd Edition. — Tim Condon, Tanner Nelson, Jonas Schwartz, Logan Wright. — Razeware LLC., Mar 30 2021. — 585 p. — ISBN: n/a.Version (v3.0.1)The definitive book on building web apps and web APIs using Server-Side Swift with Vapor was written by the creators of the Vapor 4 framework. Learn how to build web apps and web APIs using Swift and the Vapor 4 framework!If you’re a beginner to web development but have worked with Swift for some time, you’ll find it’s easy to create robust, fully-featured web apps and web APIs with Vapor 4. Whether you’re looking to create a backend for your iOS app or want to create fully-featured web apps, Vapor is the perfect platform for you.This book starts with the basics of web development and introduces the basics of Vapor; it then walks you through creating APIs and web backends; creating and configuring databases; deploying to Heroku, AWS, or Docker; testing your creations, and more!Vapor is an open-source web framework written in Swift. It’s built on top of Apple’s SwiftNIO library to provide a powerful, asynchronous framework. Vapor allows you to build back-end applications for iOS apps, front-end websites, and stand-alone server applications.This book provides the building blocks for developers who wish to use Vapor to create server-side Swift applications. It shows you how to take the familiar type-safe, compiler-driven world of Swift you know from iOS and use it on the server. The only prerequisites for this book are an intermediate understanding of Swift and iOS development.