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The iOS Developer’s Introduction to Vapor (3)

The iOS Developer’s Introduction to Vapor (3)

Server-side Swift has been around for a couple of years and as time goes by the maturity of putting Swift on the server grows. With this talk, I will give an introduction to one of the most popular server-side Swift frameworks called Vapor, which recently released a new major version. I will talk a bit about how I ended up doing server-side Swift development after working with iOS for years and I’ll look at the potential synergy between Vapor and iOS. This talk requires no prior knowledge to server-side Swift.

Steffen D. Sommer

October 04, 2018
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  1. Introduction to Vapor
    The Developer’s
    3

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  2. " Head of Vapor Development at Nodes
    Full time Vapor developer since January 2017
    Background in iOS development
    ~50 customer projects and ~40 packages
    @steffendsommer

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  4. “Platform support for all Apple platforms as well as
    Linux”

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  6. A web framework built in Swift
    Official support for SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis
    Built on top of SwiftNIO

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  8. Frontend Backend
    Static websites
    Dynamic websites
    API

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  9. Backend
    API
    Android application
    iOS application
    Single page application
    Illustration borrowed from Jonas Schwartz

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  10. 1.0
    Sep, 2016
    2.0
    May, 2017
    3.0
    April, 2018
    0.1
    Jan, 2016
    Timeline borrowed from Tanner Nelson

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  11. ⚙ Configs
    Codable
    Async

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  12. import Vapor
    let app = try Application()
    let router = try app.make(Router.self)
    router.get("hello") { req in
    return "Hello, world."
    }
    try app.run()

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  13. Strong, safe and modern language
    Fast and has a low memory footprint (aka. )
    Tech awesomeness
    ♻ Potential synergy between iOS and Vapor

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  14. Models
    ⚠ Errors
    Frameworks used in both places
    Endpoints & Environments
    Business logic
    Styling
    Test code (e.g. mocks)
    ✅ Validation
    ☂ A framework that wraps the endpoints

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  15. Modern and Swifty API’s
    Great community
    Growing eco system
    Most popular

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  16. Everything is “new”
    Tooling
    ⚙ Foundation
    Eco system
    Resources

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  18. Number of users
    1



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  19. Performance
    ?

    < 2 sec

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  20. Performance
    Free

    Pricy

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  21. Platforms
    iOS
    tvOS
    macOS
    watchOS

    macOS
    Linux

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  22. Bug fixing
    Next release cycle

    Fix it now

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  23. User Interfaces
    Storyboards
    Auto Layout
    Xib

    HTML
    CSS
    JavaScript

    Leaf

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  24. The Xcode Project File
    Merge madness

    What file?

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  25. State
    Used when needed

    It’s all about the request

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  26. Persistence
    Used

    Very central

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  27. Architecture
    MVC
    MVVM
    MVP
    VIPER

    MVC

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  28. ?

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  29. https://www.serversideswift.work

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  30. Create a new post
    Show all published posts, sorted by a publish date
    Show details of a single post

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  31. brew install vapor/tap/vapor
    1

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  32. vapor new ServerSideSwiftWork
    2

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  33. vapor xcode
    3

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  35. http://localhost:8080/hello

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  36. SQLite
    Fluent
    Leaf

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  38. // swift-tools-version:4.2
    import PackageDescription
    let package = Package(
    name: "ServerSideSwiftWork",
    dependencies: [
    // A server-side Swift web framework.
    .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/vapor.git", from: "3.0.0"),
    // Swift ORM (queries, models, relations, etc) built on SQLite 3.
    .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/fluent-sqlite.git", from: "3.0.0"),
    // Template engine
    .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/leaf.git", from: "3.0.1"),
    ],
    targets: [
    .target(name: "App", dependencies: ["Leaf", "FluentSQLite", "Vapor"]),
    .target(name: "Run", dependencies: ["App"]),
    .testTarget(name: "AppTests", dependencies: ["App"])
    ]
    )

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  40. final class Work: Codable {
    public var id: Int?
    public var company: String
    public var location: String
    public var title: String
    public var description: String
    public var externalUrl: String
    public var publishedAt: Date?
    public init(
    company: String,
    location: String,
    title: String,
    description: String,
    externalUrl: String,
    publishedAt: Date? = nil
    ) {
    self.company = company
    self.location = location
    self.title = title
    self.description = description
    self.externalUrl = externalUrl
    self.publishedAt = publishedAt
    }
    }

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  41. extension Work: SQLiteModel {}
    extension Work: Migration {}
    extension Work: Content {}
    extension Work: Parameter {}

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  43. func create(_ req: Request) throws -> Future {
    return try req
    .content
    .decode(Work.self)
    .save(on: req)
    }

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  44. func index(_ req: Request) throws -> Future {
    return Work
    .query(on: req)
    .filter(\.publishedAt != nil)
    .sort(\.publishedAt, .descending)
    .all()
    }

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  45. struct ViewData: Codable {
    let work: [Work]
    }
    func renderIndex(_ req: Request) throws -> Future {
    return Work
    .query(on: req)
    .filter(\.publishedAt != nil)
    .sort(\.publishedAt, .descending)
    .all()
    .flatMap { items in
    try req.view().render("index", ViewData(work: items))
    }
    }

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  46. func show(_ req: Request) throws -> Future {
    return try req
    .parameters
    .next(Work.self)
    }

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  48. Work

    #for(item in work) {

    #(item.title) at #(item.company)

    #(item.description)

    }

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  50. public func routes(_ router: Router) throws {
    let workController = WorkController()
    router.get("api/work", use: workController.index)
    router.get("api/work", Work.parameter, use: workController.show)
    router.post("api/work", use: workController.create)
    router.get("work", use: workController.renderIndex)
    }

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  52. public func configure(_ config: inout Config, _ env: inout Environment, _ services: inout Services) throws {
    /// Register providers first
    try services.register(FluentSQLiteProvider())
    try services.register(LeafProvider())
    config.prefer(LeafRenderer.self, for: ViewRenderer.self)
    /// Register routes to the router
    let router = EngineRouter.default()
    try routes(router)
    services.register(router, as: Router.self)
    /// Register middleware
    var middlewares = MiddlewareConfig()
    middlewares.use(ErrorMiddleware.self)
    services.register(middlewares)
    // Configure a SQLite database
    let sqlite = try SQLiteDatabase(storage: .memory)
    /// Register the configured SQLite database to the database config.
    var databases = DatabasesConfig()
    databases.add(database: sqlite, as: .sqlite)
    services.register(databases)
    /// Configure migrations
    var migrations = MigrationConfig()
    migrations.add(model: Work.self, database: .sqlite)
    services.register(migrations)
    }

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  54. try services.register(FluentSQLiteProvider())
    try services.register(LeafProvider())
    config.prefer(LeafRenderer.self, for: ViewRenderer.self)

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  55. let router = EngineRouter.default()
    try routes(router)
    services.register(router, as: Router.self)

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  56. let sqlite = try SQLiteDatabase(storage: .memory)
    var databases = DatabasesConfig()
    databases.add(database: sqlite, as: .sqlite)
    services.register(databases)

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  57. var migrations = MigrationConfig()
    migrations.add(model: Work.self, database: .sqlite)
    services.register(migrations)

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  62. GET http://localhost:8080/work

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  63. Yes, async is hard at first
    RxSwift/ReactiveSwift can be a plus
    Async/await would be great

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  66. vapor cloud deploy

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  67. https://vapor.cloud

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  68. Multiple regions and cloud providers
    Custom docker templates
    ♻ Internal DNS setup
    Build pipeline
    ✏ Releases and rollback
    Public API
    Database IP
    Built-in Git server
    Commands in separate replicas
    ⚙ Loadbalancer configuration
    More statistics
    All features in the dashboard
    Config updates without redeployment
    And much more…
    Version 2

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  69. Public alpha
    Now-ish
    Week 40-41

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  70. https://docs.vapor.codes
    https://discord.gg/vapor
    Tim Condon - Getting Started with Server Side Swift and
    Vapor (Codemobile 2018)
    ? https://www.serversideswift.work
    https://www.serversideswift.info

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  73. @steffendsommer

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