Heroku is good but it’s not something you have that much control when it comes to scaling. But using Ubuntu server is going to be the better option down that road. That’s one of the first deployment options that they have.

It’s not in their 2.0 docs but the 1.5 web sockets are still compatible with Vapor 2.0. It helps you to connect securely with your users. They have this validation tool that fully manages Swift’s protocols. If you check on the run schema to your Mac, you can just run it as a server straight to Xcode. Vapor xcode will create your Xcode build file. It’s really simple if you can break into a terminal. But it was Tanner Nelson and Logan Wright who founded it. They’ve been financing the Vapor project early on. It also allows you to add-in whichever tool you need. You don’t really have to use every part of it. That is one reason why Bob thinks Vapor is going to outlast a lot of the other frameworks. And now, it’s really down to 6 lines of code. In 1.5, they have a lot of things in their main. It’s a top level application where everything else goes through.Īctually, between 1.5 and 2, they’ve made some improvements to the structure of it, as well. That’s the web server and you can attach handlers for URL’s for routing to it, etc. The Droplet is the thing that you create. Vapor has different packages that are built into the Vapor library.

All you have to do is change how your profile on the back-end. If you want to change the database you’re using, you can do that without changing Fluent, without changing Nodes, or the Droplet. That will send on to the actual database. Then, Fluent will communicate your profile of the database. And then, you’re going to send that information to Fluent. You’re going to have the information you want to get into a Node. It makes it easy to go from Vapor to a MySQL, a Postgre, or a MongoDB database. It allows Vapor to communicate with whatever database you’re using. It’s basically a converter that you can return almost any format that you will need inside of Vapor. You get some information from the database. If you want to return a JSON object with a request that you got, you can immediately spit out a JSON object. It makes using that data very easy.Ī node is a class that has protocols built on top of it. That’s what vapor nodes kind of comes into play. Each one of those parts to this environment generally takes a lot of interaction to get information for one piece to the next. The real premise of the server is you have information that you take from outside, get request, you process them, and most of the time that you’re sending it to the database or returning it without going to the database. You have the Vapor Nodes, which is going to be your central point for all of your data types. Everything else just kind of relates to that. You have the Droplet which is your entire application. In doing that, what allowed Bob to really explore is how easy it is to set up relationships for your database inside Swift versus something else like Python. It’s a web-based application where you just insult your friends and maybe insult you back. That’s actually one of the reasons why the performance is better than JavaScript that isn’t type-safe.īob has a project with his friend, and they’re making it open-source. When it comes to making variables, knowing that you’re keeping the same type of values is very important. Working with Xcode and protocols, it gives you good practices for building applications. With these protocols, you can apply pretty much different attributes to a class. It’s not quite enterprise-level yet.īesides the curly brackets, Bob also loves the Swift protocols. You can deploy, build, and have a production-ready server-side Swift application but you probably want to keep it for a small to mid-size projects. Right now, he is a full-stack developer for a start-up called Crew and he works on Objective-C and Python, and Python Django for the backend. The boot camp focused on Python and iOS but that was all front-end for apps. He went to a boot camp last year and made that career shift. – Back-end development before Vaporīob is a former graphic designer. Swift has protocols and has incredible performance as compared to Objective-C and other languages like JavaScript. A couple of weeks ago, they just released Vapor 2.0. It came out two months after Swift became open-source. Bob is on the show today to discuss the structure of Vapor and web app deployment, etc. On today's episode of iPhreaks, Andrew Madsen and Jaim Zuber talk about Vapor with Bob Snyder.

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