Server Side Swift with Vapor: Building Web APIs and Web Apps in Swift

Acknowledgements
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About This Book
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About the Cover
Chapter 1: Introduction
	About Vapor
	How to read this book
	Update Note
Chapter 2: Hello, Vapor
	Vapor Toolbox
	Building your first app
	Swift Package Manager
	Creating your own routes
	Accepting data
	Returning JSON
	Troubleshooting Vapor
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 3: HTTP Basics
	Powering the web
	HTTP in web browsers
	HTTP in iOS apps
	HTTP 2.0
	REST
	Why use Vapor?
Chapter 4: Async
	Async
	Working with futures
	SwiftNIO
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 5: Fluent & Persisting Models
	Fluent
	Acronyms
	Saving models
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 6: Configuring a Database
	Why use a database?
	Choosing a database
	Configuring Vapor
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 7: CRUD Database Operations
	CRUD and REST
	Fluent queries
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 8: Controllers
	Controllers
	Getting started with controllers
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 9: Parent-Child Relationships
	Parent-child relationships
	Creating a user
	Setting up the relationship
	Querying the relationship
	Foreign key constraints
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 10: Sibling Relationships
	Sibling relationships
	Creating a category
	Creating a pivot
	Querying the relationship
	Removing the relationship
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 11: Testing
	Why should you write tests?
	Writing tests with SwiftPM
	Testing users
	Testing the User API
	Testing acronyms and categories
	Testing on Linux
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 12: Creating a Simple iPhone App, Part 1
	Getting started
	Viewing the acronyms
	Viewing the users
	Viewing the categories
	Creating users
	Creating acronyms
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 13: Creating a Simple iPhone App, Part 2
	Getting started
	Editing acronyms
	Deleting acronyms
	Creating categories
	Adding acronyms to categories
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 14: Templating with Leaf
	Leaf
	Configuring Leaf
	Rendering a page
	Injecting variables
	Using tags
	Acronym detail page
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 15: Beautifying Pages
	Embedding templates
	Bootstrap
	Navigation
	Tables
	Serving files
	Users
	Sharing templates
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 16: Making a Simple Web App, Part 1
	Categories
	Create acronyms
	Editing acronyms
	Deleting acronyms
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 17: Making a Simple Web App, Part 2
	Creating acronyms with categories
	Displaying Categories
	Editing acronyms
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 18: API Authentication, Part 1
	Passwords
	Basic authentication
	Token authentication
	Database seeding
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 19: API Authentication, Part 2
	Updating the tests
	Updating the iOS application
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 20: Web Authentication, Cookies & Sessions
	Web authentication
	Cookies
	Sessions
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 21: Validation
	The registration page
	Basic validation
	Custom validation
	Displaying an error
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 22: Google Authentication
	OAuth 2.0
	Imperial
	Integrating with web authentication
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 23: GitHub Authentication
	Setting up your application with GitHub
	Integrating with Imperial
	Integrating with web authentication
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 24: Password Reset & Emails
	User email addresses
	Integrating SendGrid
	Setting up a password reset flow
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 25: Adding Profile Pictures
	Adding a picture to the model
	Creating the form
	Accepting file uploads
	Displaying the picture
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 26: Database/API Versioning & Migration
	Modifying tables
	Adding users’ Twitter handles
	Making categories unique
	Seeding based on environment
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 27: Caching
	Cache storage
	Example: Pokédex
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 28: Middleware
	Vapor’s middleware
	Example: Todo API
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 29: WebSockets
	Tools
	A basic server
	iOS project
	Server word API
	Session Manager
	Endpoints
	Observer endpoint
	iOS follow location
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 30: Advanced Fluent
	Getting started
	Soft delete
	Timestamps
	Enums
	Lifecycle hooks
	Nested models
	Joins
	Raw SQL
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 31: Deploying with Heroku
	Setting up Heroku
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 32: Deploying with Docker
	Docker Compose
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 33: Deploying with AWS
	Before starting
	Setup your AWS instance
	Install Swift
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 34: Production Concerns
	Using environments
	Compiling with optimizations
	Note on testing
	Process monitoring
	Reverse Proxies
	Logging
	Horizontal scalability
	Sessions with Redis
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 35: Microservices, Part 1
	Microservices
	The TIL microservices
	The acronym microservice
	Dealing with relationships
	Authentication in Microservices
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 36: Microservices, Part 2
	The API gateway
	Running everything in Docker
	Where to go from here?
Conclusion