Web Development with Swift

What Server-Side Swift means for web development and why you should care

Using Atom for Web Development with Swift

Why it’s a good idea to use it + favorite packages and tips

Vapor 2 Authentication

Vapor offers a great toolset for user authentication and access restriction. It provides all the standard authentication procedures that are widely used.

This article will show how to register and authenticate with Basic Auth (Username and Password) via a web…

Using PostgreSQL With Vapor 2

Persistence of data is one of the most important features of many web applications. My Goal in this article is to show you how to connect your Vapor application to a PostgreSQL database.

The Swift Package Manager

An introduction

Configuring Vapor apps for Testing

When you create a new Vapor application using the command line tools the framework provides…

Vapor 2 — One To Many & Many to Many Relations

The following tutorial will cover the modeling and managing of One-To-Many and Many-To-Many relations in Vapor 2.

For this tutorial we will use the project we created in my first tutorial about Vapor 2 Relations and develop…

Social Authentication in Vapor 1

Note: This article is not compatible with Vapor 2. If you are still on Vapor 1, you can follow this…

Vapor 2 — One To One Relations

When I created the first prototype in Vapor one of the first things that were not clear to me were how to model database relations. Maybe because I have not worked too much with databases in the past or maybe because you have to get used to the concept, or both.

Swift Package Pinning

Updating your server-side Swift project to use Swift 3.1 introduces a big change to the way the Swift package manager works you may not be aware of - updating your dependencies will by default generate generate this Package.pins file. So what is this thing?