Full-Stack iOS Development with Swift and Vapor

Cover....1 Halftitle....2 Title....4 Copyright....5 Dedication....6 Contents....8 Preface....14 Acknowledgments....18 About the Author....20 Chapter 1: Full-Stack Development Overview....22 Introduction....22 Structure....22 Introduction to Full-Stack Development....23 Brief History....25 Full-Stack: What Does It Mean?....26 Minimum Viable Product (MVP)....26 Airbnb....27 Foursquare....27 Problems with Full-Stack Development....28 Advantages of Full-Stack Development....31 Swift on Server and Vapor....32 Swift Packages for Back-End Development....35 SwiftNIO....35 AsyncHTTPClient....36 Swift AWS Lambda Runtime....37 Soto—AWS SDK Swift....37 Conclusion....38 Chapter 2: Setting Up the Environment....40 Introduction....40 Structure....40 Installation of Xcode....41 Installation of the Vapor Toolbox....42 Hello World Project (Vapor)....43 Build and Run Project....43 Folder Structure....45 Public Folder....46 Sources....46 Run....46 Tests....47 Swift Package Manager....47 Hello World Project (iOS)....48 Project Structure....52 Add Hello World Label....53 Run Xcode Project....56 Conclusion....60 Chapter 3: Routing, MVC, and JSON in Vapor....62 Introduction....62 Structure....62 Objectives....63 Routes....63 Router Methods....64 Basic Routes....64 Nested Routes....65 Route Parameters....68 Anything Routes and Catch-All Routes....71 Query Strings....73 Route Groups....74 Model-View-Controller (MVC)....76 Working with JSON....84 Posting JSON and Postman App....88 Conclusion....94 Chapter 4: Async and HTML Rendering in Vapor....96 Introduction....96 Structure....96 Objectives....96 Async....97 Async Await....97 Migrating to Async/Await....97 Logging....98 Environment....100 Errors....101 Abort....101 Abort Error....102 Debuggable Error....104 Stack Traces....106 Swift Backtrace....106 Error Traces....106 ErrorMiddleware....107 Leaf....108 Conclusion....115 Chapter 5: PostgreSQL Integration in Vapor....116 Introduction....116 Structure....116 Objectives....117 Data Persistence with Vapor....117 Installing and Setting Up PostgreSQL....117 Fluent ORM....125 Adding Fluent to a New Project....125 Adding Fluent to an Existing Project....128 CRUD Operations....128 Migrations....131 Postico....133 Create and Save Model....137 Create Model....137 Save Model....137 Conclusion....142 Chapter 6: Building User Interfaces for iOS....144 Introduction....144 Structure....144 Auto Layout with Storyboards....145 Swift UI....156 Working with Text....158 Working with Images....161 Working with Stacks....165 Conclusion....169 Chapter 7: Data Persistence with Core Data and SQLite in iOS....170 Introduction....170 Structure....170 Core Data....171 Core Data Stack....171 Include Core Data in a New Project....172 Include Core Data in an Existing Project....173 CRUD Operations....175 Codegen....179 Category/Extension....180 Core Data Migrations....182 Lightweight Data Migration....183 Networking....185 Protocol Support....186 Conclusion....186 Chapter 8: Full-Stack Implementation....188 Introduction....188 Structure....188 Objectives....189 Project Outline....189 Setup Remote Database....189 Server App....192 Models....193 Migrations....196 Controllers....198 Config and Routes....201 iOS App....205 Models....206 Networking....208 User Interface....213 Test Run....222 Conclusion....224 Chapter 9: Advanced Full-Stack Concepts....226 Introduction....226 Structure....226 Objectives....226 Middleware....227 Creating Middleware....228 WebSockets....230 Messages....230 Sending....231 Receiving....231 Closing....232 APNS....232 Security....237 Authentication....237 Basic Authentication....238 Bearer Authentication....240 Composition....241 Session....243 JWT....245 KeyChain....247 Adding a Password to Keychain....248 Conclusion....250 Chapter 10: Deploying iOS and Vapor Applications....252 Introduction....252 Structure....252 Objectives....253 Vapor App Deployment....253 Heroku....253 Docker....257 Set up Docker....258 Build and Run....260 Production Deployment....260 iOS App Deployment....261 Code Signing....261 Create App Store Connect Record for the App....262 Add New App....263 Archive and Upload the App....263 Configure the App’s Metadata in App Store Connect....265 Submit App for Review....266 Conclusion....268 Index....270