Swift for Back-End: A new generation of full stack

languages?

Full-stack“Developers who are comfortable working with both back-end and front-end technologies”

Full-stack Examples

Full-stack Developer Examples

Swift● Modern● Fast● Safe● OpenSource●

Swift vs Objective-C● Swift is easier to read

● Swift is easier to maintain

● Swift is safer

● Swift is unified with memory management

● Swift requires less code

Swift vs Objective-C

Swift is easier to read

Objective C

Swift

Swift is easier to read

Swift Full-stack

Swift Mobile

Swift Desktop

Swift Server

● Web swift framework● Pure swift● MVC● Middlewares● API

Installation● Install swift● Install vapor toolbox (curl -sL toolbox.vapor.sh |

bash)● Install swiftenv(optional)● Have fun ;)

Databases

Fluent is the first Swift ORM and it works great with a wide range

of databases. It provides a beautifully expressive and easy to use

syntax for interacting with your database.

DEMO

Pros and ConsPros

● Performance

● Swift

● Debug

● Apple

Cons

● Early phase**

Vapor vs other guys● Vapor (Swift)

● Ruby on Rails (Ruby)

● Laravel (PHP)

● Lumen (PHP)

● Express (JavaScript)

● Django (Python)

● Flask (Python)

● Spring (Java)

● Nancy (C#)

● Go (Pure Go, no

framework)

PlainText

SQLite Fetch

JSON

Deploy

Things to do?

Things to do?

● Authentication

● API

● Errors Handling

● Bug Fixes

● https://github.com/OpenKitten/MongoKitten/pull/41

Documentation

● https://vapor.github.io/documentation/● https://github.com/vapor/vapor● http://stackoverflow.com/

Results

Vapor’s speed comes from the fact that it is both compiled and has modern syntax and language features. Even though it is a new framework, it is giving people plenty to talk about.

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