Getting Started with Swift Web Frameworks

Now that Swift is open-source and cross-platform, several teams are racing to make Swift a viable language for web development. The major frameworks: Perfect, Vapor, IBM Kitura, and Zewo have over 22,000 stars on GitHub, and are growing quickly!

Learn about the evolution of Swift, the different web frameworks, and an introduction for how to get started with developing in server side Swift. Join Edward for a live coding demo and even deploy a Swift application to the cloud!

Presented at All Things Open 2016
https://allthingsopen.org

Perfect: https://perfect.org
Vapor: https://vapor.codes
Kitura: http://kitura.io
Zewo: http://zewo.io

Turnstile Auth for server-side Swift: https://github.com/stormpath/Turnstile

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edwardstarcraft

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1. Getting Started with Swift Web Frameworks Presented by Edward Jiang 10/26/16 at All Things Open
2. Hi, I’m Edward! @EdwardStarcraft: Developer Evangelist @Stormpath. Formerly iOS @PadMapper, Founder @StudentRND.
3. Announced June 2014 Swift
5. Developers Love Swift
6. “For the second year in a row Rust, Swift and Go make the top 5 most loved programming languages.”
7. Apple Open Sourced Swift in December 2015
10. Swift Package Manager
11. Swift on Linux
12. Why not Swift for the Web?
13. Over 22,000 stars on GitHub Zewo
14. Perfect
16. Perfect
18. Vapor
20. Kitura
21. Zewo
23. Let’s build our first Vapor app!
24. Step 1: Install Swift Version Manager
25. Install Swift Version Manager $ git clone https://github.com/kylef/swiftenv.git ~/.swiftenv $ echo 'export SWIFTENV_ROOT="$HOME/.swiftenv"' >> ~/.bash_profile $ echo 'export PATH="$SWIFTENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile $ echo 'eval "$(swiftenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
26. Install Swift 3.0 $ swiftenv install 3.0
27. Initialize Your Project $ mkdir HelloWorld $ cd HelloWorld $ swift package init --type executable Creating executable package: HelloWorld Creating Package.swift Creating Sources/ Creating Sources/main.swift Creating Tests/
28. Add Vapor to your Package.swift import PackageDescription let package = Package( name: "HelloWorld", dependencies: [ .Package(url: "https://github.com/ vapor/vapor.git", majorVersion: 1) ] )
29. Open in Xcode $ swift package generate-xcodeproj $ open HelloWorld.xcodeproj
30. Code!
31. Let’s Run This!
32. Now…to deploy to the web!
33. Now…to deploy to the web! $ git init $ heroku create $ heroku buildpacks:set https:// github.com/kylef/heroku-buildpack-swift $ echo 'web: HelloWorld -- config:servers.default.port=$PORT' >> Procfile $ git add . $ git commit -m "created project" $ git push heroku master
34. And we’re running!
36. Contributing to Swift
39. Submit a Pull Request!
40. apple/swift apple/swift-corelibs-foundation apple/swift-evolution swift-server/work-group
41. Contributing to Web Frameworks
43. Thanks Everyone! @EdwardStarcraft: Developer Evangelist @Stormpath. Check out Turnstile: Auth for Server Side Swift