Swift-Server
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| Swift-Server | Vapor | |
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| 0 | 55 | |
| 56 | 22,833 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 0.0 | 6.5 | |
| over 7 years ago | 6 days ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Vapor
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Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
Otherwise there's https://github.com/vapor/vapor
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Most effective approach for building a client/server application (MacOS)
The Swift/Vapor project is a relatively easy way to do it.
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First contract, how much should I charge?
Opening this webpage (https://vapor.codes) cranks my CPU (5800x3d) to 100% instantly. Why?
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Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
Vapor is the most popular non-Apple-ecosystem Swift project. There have been a few others, but none particularly popular.
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Idea for small project? (without touching any UI)
Server-side apps (typically via Vapor)
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Why I selected Elixir and Phoenix as my main stack
My first option other than PHP was using Swift and Vapor. I have made some projects with iOS and Objective-C, maybe I could also learn Swift and create both native iOS apps and backends with the same language.
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Cheapest iOS <-> database architecture?
You could learn Vapor, I created a tutorial series for this, you write the backend API in Swift, rather than needing to learn another programming language
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Ask HN: Hunting for a Framework
Vapor[0] based on Swift. Advantage of this is that you don't have to evaluate multiple frameworks for Swift and suffer paralysis by analysis. All the Swift community is behind one framework.
The next is Actix[1] based on Rust. There are many frameworks in Rust and most of them have not reached 1.0 And which framework will survive becomes a question.
Other not so well-known is Wt[2] based on C++. This actually is created for programmers who are not web developers. The development experience is similar to desktop app development like Qt.
If that is not acceptable then Django[3], based on Python, is the one that will be good for you.
For the front-end I would recommend Flutter[4]. As much as I dislike getting tied to a single company for whom the framework is not their bread-and-butter, I don't see any other viable options to Flutter that will cover all web, mobile and desktop out of the box.
For databases, I would recommend BedrockDB[5], if you are not averse to SQLite. Or FoundationDB[6], if you want NoSQL. But if you are not concerned about horizontal scalability or okay with self-managing database availability, then PostgreSQL[7] is a very good option.
For push notifications, PushPin[8] is a good option.
[1] https://actix.rs
[3] https://www.djangoproject.com
What are some alternatives?
Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)
Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift
Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.
swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.
GCDWebServer - The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server)
Zewo - Lightweight library for web server applications in Swift on macOS and Linux powered by coroutines.
Express - Swift Express is a simple, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift
smoke-framework - A light-weight server-side service framework written in the Swift programming language.
Swifton - A Ruby on Rails inspired Web Framework for Swift that runs on Linux and OS X
hummingbird - Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift
CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications
SwiftGD - A simple Swift wrapper for libgd