This slide deck by Carlos Lopez, Sr. Mobile Developer at Koombea, was presented as part of Koombea Conf 2016.

1. Swift for Back-End: A new
generation of full stack
languages?

3. Full-stack
“Developers who are comfortable
working with both back-end and front-end
technologies”

4. Full-stack Examples

5. Full-stack Developer Examples

6. Swift
● Modern
● Fast
● Safe
● OpenSource
●

7. Swift vs Objective-C
● Swift is easier to read
● Swift is easier to maintain
● Swift is safer
● Swift is unified with memory management
● Swift requires less code

8. Swift vs Objective-C

9. Swift is easier to read
Objective C
Swift

10. Swift is easier to read

11. Swift Full-stack

12. Swift Mobile

13. Swift Desktop

14. Swift Server

15. ● Web swift framework
● Pure swift
● MVC
● Middlewares
● API

16. Installation
● Install swift
● Install vapor toolbox (curl -sL toolbox.vapor.sh |
bash)
● Install swiftenv(optional)
● Have fun ;)

17. Databases

18. Fluent is the first Swift ORM and it works great with a wide range
of databases. It provides a beautifully expressive and easy to use
syntax for interacting with your database.

20. DEMO

21. Pros and Cons
Pros
● Performance
● Swift
● Debug
● Apple
Cons
● Early phase**

22. Vapor vs other guys
● Vapor (Swift)
● Ruby on Rails (Ruby)
● Laravel (PHP)
● Lumen (PHP)
● Express (JavaScript)
● Django (Python)
● Flask (Python)
● Spring (Java)
● Nancy (C#)
● Go (Pure Go, no
framework)

23. PlainText

24. SQLite Fetch

25. JSON

26. Deploy

27. Things to do?

28. Things to do?
● Authentication
● API
● Errors Handling
● Bug Fixes
● https://github.com/OpenKitten/MongoKitten/pull/41

29. Documentation
● https://vapor.github.io/documentation/
● https://github.com/vapor/vapor
● http://stackoverflow.com/

30. Results
Vapor’s speed comes from the fact that it is both compiled and has
modern syntax and language features. Even though it is a new
framework, it is giving people plenty to talk about.

31. Got questions?
Twitter.com/callo90
carlos.lopez@koombea.com