I’m usually a person who loves to type, hence the developer job/life, but sometimes when you do the same thing over and over again, the same sequence of commands, it gets tedious… In comes the `create-swift-project` bash script! The script will take only one parameter when launched, and that is…

All the examples I’ve seen around the web have the same boilerplate structure when it comes to routing and handling requests, which looks a little bit like this import PerfectLib import PerfectHTTP import PerfectHTTPServer // Create HTTP server. let server = HTTPServer() // Register your own routes and handlers var routes…

This guide continues where the previous one left off. We are ready to handle requests towards our app. At the moment, we’re already handling a GET request to our app because the PerfectTemplate has a route added, responding to “/” as the URI. If you will continue reading this guide…

In the last episode we’ve added a new route (POST on “/”) and we’ve tested it using a print command. …

This is the fourth part in our journey towards building a functional API using Swift 3 and Perfect. If you just tuned in, you can read the previous guides here: Part 0 (Pilot) — Setting up a DigitalOcean instance to run our code live Part 1 — Perfect: Server-side Swift…

When a request has completed its course and the business logic has finished processing/interacting with the data, it is required that the HTTPResponse’s .completed() function be called. …

All we need to do in order to get access to the JSON methods is to add PerfectLib as an import — that’s it! Once the import is added we gain access to the methods exposed by the JSON class .jsonEncodedString() This method is added as an extension and can be…