A community curated list of resources about Server Side Swift

Awesome Server Side Swift

A community curated list of resources about Server Side Swift.

Contents

Frameworks

• Kitura ( IBM-Swift/Kitura )
• MicroExpress
• Perfect ( PerfectlySoft/Perfect )
• Smoke
• SwiftNIO
• Vapor ( vapor/vapor )

Packages

Authentication

• Imperial - Federated Authentication with OAuth providers
• Kitura-Credentials - A pluggable framework for validating user credentials in a Swift server using Kitura

Cloud

• AWS Lambda Swift - A custom AWS Lambda Runtime
• S3 - Basic S3 access library for Vapor

Database

ORM

• Fluent - Swift ORM framework for building NoSQL and SQL database integrations
• StORM
• SwifQL - Easily build flexible and type-safe SQL with pure Swift
• Swift-Kuery-ORM - An ORM for Swift, built on Codable

CouchDB

• Kitura-CouchDB

MongoDB

• Meow - MongoDB object persistence
• MongoKitten
• Perfect MongoDB

MySQL

• Perfect MySQL
• SwiftKueryMySQL
• Vapor MySQL

PostgreSQL

• Perfect PostgreSQL
• Swift-Kuery-PostgreSQL
• Vapor PostgreSQL

Redis

• Disque - Non-blocking, event-driven Swift client for Disque, a distributed job queue.
• Kitura Redis
• Perfect Redis
• Vapor Redis

SQLite

• Perfect SQLite
• Swift-Kuery-SQLite
• Vapor SQLite

Logging

• Boomerang - Vapor middleware for logging incoming requests
• HeliumLogger - A lightweight logging framework
• LoggerAPI - Logger protocol
• Perfect Logging - File-based logging for Perfect
• swift-log - A logging API package for Swift 5

Miscellaneous

• AddressManager - A Vapor micro-service to store address information
• Curly - cURL support for Vapor
• IkigaJSON - A high performance JSON library in Swift
• Jobs - A queue system for Vapor
• Perfect-CURL - cURL support for Perfect
• Vapor Stripe Provider - Stripe Provider for Vapor
• VaporCron - Vapor cron scheduler

Monitoring

• SwiftPrometheus - Clientside Prometheus library
• VaporMonitoring - Monitoring for Vapor

Security

• CSRF - A package to add protection to Vapor against CSRF attacks
• VaporSecurityHeaders - A Middleware library for adding security headers to your Vapor application

Templating

• HTMLKit - A lightning fast, type-safe HTML templating library
• Kitura-TemplateEngine
• Perfect Mustache
• Vapor Leaf

WebSockets

• Kitura WebSocket
• Perfect WebSockets
• Vapor WebSockets

Resources

Articles

• A µTutorial on Swift NIO
• Getting Started with SwiftNIO
• How to test controllers by mocking dependencies in Vapor 3 and Swift
• Live Demo of Swift NIO In An Xcode Playground
• Server-side Swift: Making Canopy
• SwiftNIO: A simple guide to async on the server
• TCP Server With the SwiftNIO Networking Framework
• Vapor Review – Swift Choice For the Back End
• Vapor – Deep Dive into Setup and Deployment for Heroku and Ubuntu
• Watermarking photos with ImageMagick, Vapor 3 and Swift on macOS and Linux

Blogs

• IBM Swift Engineering Blog
• The Always Right Institute
• The Swift Web Developer - Web Development using Swift on the server
• Vaporforums - Vapor articles and tutorials

Books

• Kitura Until Dawn
• Server Side Swift with Kitura (raywenderlich.com)
• Server Side Swift with Vapor (raywenderlich.com)
• Server-Side Swift (Hacking with Swift)

Communities

• Kitura Slack
• Perfect Slack
• Vapor Discord

Conferences

• ServerSide.swift - Oct 30, 2019 - Nov 1, 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Swift Cloud Workshop - May 9th, 2019 in McLean, VA

Courses

• Lynda - Learning Server-Side Swift Using IBM Kitura
• objc.io - Server Side Swift
• raywenderlich.com - Server Side Swift with Kitura
• raywenderlich.com - Server Side Swift with Perfect
• raywenderlich.com - Server Side Swift with Vapor
• Treehouse - Quickstart for an API using Vapor 3
• Udemy - Introduction to Server-Side Swift
• Udemy - Mastering Server Side Swift Using Vapor 3

Documentation

• Kitura
• Perfect
• SwiftNIO
• Vapor

Forums

• Swift Forums - Server - Official Swift public forums

Jobs

• Server-Side Swift Work - Resource for finding jobs and Server Side Swift developers

Meetups

• Bay Area Server Side Swift Meetup - San Francisco, CA
• Server Side Swift - Newmarket, ON
• VaporBerlin - Berlin, Germany
• VaporLondon - London, United Kingdom

Podcasts

• Fatal Error: Episode 33 - Server-Side Swift in Practice
• Fireside Swift: EP 62 - IT’S A THING (Server-Side Swift) with David Okun!
• iOS Dev Discussions: Origin Stories #8 - David Okun (Kitura)
• iPhreaks: Episode 209 - Vapor with Bob Snyder
• raywenderlich.com Podcast: S08 E05 - Server Side Swift with Vapor
• raywenderlich.com Podcast: S08 E12 - Kitura
• Software Engineering Daily - Swift on the Server with Chris Bailey
• Swift by Sundell: Episode 18 - It’s like The Matrix, with Tanner Nelson
• SwiftCoders: Episode 42 - Chris Bailey, Server Side Swift Advocate
• SwiftCoders: Episode 68 - Logan Wright, Full Time OSS Developer at Vapor
• SwiftCraft - Vapor & Server Side Swift with Tim Condon

Services

• IBM Cloud
• Vapor Cloud
• Vapor Red

Tools

• Ether - A Command-Line Interface for the Swift Package Manager
• Kitura CLI - Kitura command-line tool
• Kitura macOS app - Kitura companion application
• KituraStudio - An IDE for Server-side Swift from SCADE
• Perfect Assistant - Perfect companion application
• SourceKit-LSP - Language Server Protocol implementation for Swift and C-based languages
• SwiftXcode - Swift Package Manager from within Xcode
• Vapor Toolbox - Vapor command-line tool

Videos

• Devslopes - Server Side Swift With Kitura
• Martin Lasek’s YouTube Channel
• Paul Hudson: Building a Vapor API with a matching iOS app
• ServerSide.swift Conference's YouTube Channel | ServerSide.swift Conference
• Swift Heroes: Tim Condon - Getting started with Server-Side Swift and Vapor
• try! Swift NYC: Swift NIO, Vapor, and Server Concurrency
• try! Swift Tokyo 2018 - Event driven networking for Swift - YouTube

Powered by Server Side Swift

• Canopy - Push notifications for GitHub activity.
• Point-Free - A video series on Swift and functional programming
• ServerSideSwift.racing
• Swift Talk (objc.io) - Weekly Swift video series

Related Lists

• Awesome Vapor - A curated list of Vapor-related awesome projects
• The Awesome Server Side Swift List - A list of Awesome Server Side Swift 3 projects

Contributing

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License

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