Server Side Swift with Vapor: Basic Controllers | Ray Wenderlich

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In this screencast, you'll learn how to create basic controller objects to organize the routes for your web apps.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/5002-server-side-swift-with-vapor-basic-controllers
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Great screencast, Ray!

Waiting for a authorization screencast.
Please, cover how to build a simple and secure authorization for mobile clients and how to access a protected resource.

Thanks!

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Nice! Exactly what I needed. I’m a first time backend developer after some dabbling with RoR 12 years ago.
What would be a nice addition to these SSS screencasts, IMHO, is how to provide proper unit tests for all these handlers.
But other topics, like middleware, authentication and error handling are more important.

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Is there a reason you are not using RouteCollection?

https://vapor.github.io/documentation/routing/collection.html

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@sadiq81 Actually I wasn’t even aware of RouteCollection before you mentioned it. Looking at it, I’m unsure what advantage it has over adding a simple addRoutes() method like I did in the screencast. Any thoughts?

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At the moment one reason i can see as that its more specialized, you only have access to a route builder and not the droplet, so you won’t get tempted to add droplet related code inside. Perhaps in the future it will have more functions.

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Great Video Ray. Thanks, from Peru!

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@sadiq81 Good point! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

@keyner Thanks! :]