swift-nio
Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking. (by apple)
GCDWebServer
The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) (by swisspol)
| swift-nio | GCDWebServer | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 3 | |
| 8,163 | 6,300 | |
| 0.6% | - | |
| 9.6 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Swift | Objective-C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | NOASSERTION |
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swift-nio
Posts with mentions or reviews of swift-nio.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-06-11.
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Swift Static Linux SDK
I'm guessing they clicked onto the Built with SwiftNIO link and saw this at https://github.com/apple/swift-nio.
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Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
In addition to what others have said, SwiftNIO is a possible low-level web server framework.
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Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
Also look at: Hummingbird https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird Smoke https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework Swift NIO https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
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Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Framework
You could take a look a swift-nio (https://github.com/apple/swift-nio) which is a pretty high-throughput system. swift-nio does this using some reference-counted GC where it simplifies the code and doesn't affect performance. Otherwise, value-types are used which incur no GC overhead (unless they are copy-on-write, and backed by something that requires reference counting).
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Are there any examples of major or highly complex software written solely or at-least primarily in Swift?
The UI and the Core are mainly written by Swift. The proxy server is powered by Apple Swift-NIO. Some critical parts (deal with low-level system APIs, high performant JSON Parser, de/compression, protobuf, BoringSSL,...) are written by Objective-C and C. For some parts that deal with Pointer, or C library, I continue using Objective-C since it's easier than using a bunch of Unsafe Swift classes (UnsafePointer, UnsafeMutablePointer, UnsafeRawPointer, etc)
- The Val Object Model: Template for a possible future Swift object model
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Implementing Parts of the Swift Compiler in Swift
> Why should they? That isn't their target audience.
Because they need it?
Apple discontinued macOS server, i bet they use Linux in some of their servers
All their networking related libs are available and tested for Linux [1, 2]
Let's not forget that they package Swift for Linux, and now also for Windows [3]
Swift is crossplatform language (you not wanting to understand it doesn't change this fact), it's not a macOS framework
[1] - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
[2] - https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf/blob/main/.github/wo...
[3] - https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-5-6-2-for-linux-...
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What is the simplest way to have local http server in iOS app?
I would look at NIO or something that uses it, like https://diamantidis.github.io/2019/10/27/swift-nio-server-in-an-ios-app
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Update app from external source (maybe?)
i use swiftnio to spin up http servers. lots of documentation online. your app logic will be the same as ios but without swiftui and uikit.
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Any tutorials you recommend for URLSession?
Depending on what you need, SwiftNIO might do the trick.
GCDWebServer
Posts with mentions or reviews of GCDWebServer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
- Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
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Most effective approach for building a client/server application (MacOS)
I use https://github.com/swisspol/GCDWebServer but there are many webservers you can use. You can even use the Apache that is part of the standard MacOS distribution, where you write a standard CGI to make the Mac do things. Python also includes a standard webserver.
- What is the simplest way to have local http server in iOS app?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swift-nio and GCDWebServer you can also consider the following projects:
async-http-client - HTTP client library built on SwiftNIO
swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.
Swift-Atem - Blackmagic Design Atem network protocol implementation in swift 5.1 using NIO 2
CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications
swift-log - A Logging API for Swift
swift-http - HTTP Implementation for Swift on Linux and Mac OS X