Web Hosting With Swift and Vapor Support

Web Hosting with Swift and Vapor Support

Apple Swift programming language excels as a front-end framework for iOS applications; when combined with Vapor server-side web framework for Swift it becomes a full stack development’s dream come true. Developers using Vapor allow themselves to focus solely on business logic of apps while the framework takes care of important aspects like routing and database integration for them.

Vapor supports several web servers for deploying Swift applications to the cloud, and this article details how to install and use one of the most popular: Heroku. With plans that range from free tiers that support up to five GB per month all the way up to enterprise plans with unlimited data usage per month tiers available through Heroku Pro Plus plans, this guide covers setting up a Heroku account using their command line interface as well as scaling your Heroku application successfully.

Vapor-powered web applications are equally adept on desktop browsers as on mobile devices, making hosting effortless via Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article we show how to set up an AWS instance with Vapor and run a sample web server with it.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to configure routes in your Vapor application for processing HTTP GET/POST/DELETE requests and middleware software installed between the server and your application that allows for flexible intercept and modification of both incoming and outgoing requests/responses.