Are You a Droplet? 💧 An Intro to Server-side Swift with Vapor

This talk was presented at Learn Swift Milan meetup (https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Learn-Swift-Milan/) in November 2017. It illustrates the basics of Vapor (https://vapor.codes/), one of the available frameworks for backend development in Swift.

Source code for the live coding session presented during the talk is available on Github: https://github.com/para/LearnSwiftMilan-EmojiPets

Transcript

1. ARE YOU A DROPLET? AN INTRO TO SERVER-SIDE SWIFT WITH VAPOR @ALBEGUARINO • LEARN SWIFT MILAN • 23 NOV 2017
2. GOAL Showing how Swift is a viable option for backend programming
3. TODAY'S ADVENTURE 1. Vapor 2. Live Coding 3. How to Learn More
4. VAPOR
5. ! vapor.codes > Framework for server-side programming in Swift > Open source: github.com/vapor/vapor > Works on: iOS / macOS / Ubuntu
6. VAPOR TOOLBOX
7. Task Command Create new Vapor project vapor new [projectName] Generate Xcode project vapor xcode Build vapor build Run vapor run Powered by swift package manager
8. A FULLY-FLEDGED FRAMEWORK > Fluent ORM > Leaf templating language > Routing > JWT > Caching > Connectors for MySQL, Redis, ... > Cloud deployment
9. ON STABILITY* Software and cathedrals are much the same: first we build them, then we pray - Anonymous * We're not really that concerned here
10. SOME OF THE PROS > Cool > Great community > No need to learn a new language > No need to learn new tools > Sharing code between app and backend
11. THE PROJECT A simple API for creating and retrieving a collection of pets and their emojis (EmojiPets) { "name": "FailPanda", "emoji": " ! " } Source code: https://github.com/para/ LearnSwiftMilan-EmojiPets
12. LIVE CODING TIME
13. MORE INFO > Vapor University > Vapor Cloud > Ray Wenderlich - Vapor Tutorials > Realm Academy Video • 23 Oct 2017 > Vapor 3 Docs
14. THANK YOU! Alberto Guarino • @albeguarino Learn Swift Milan • @LearnSwiftMilan