WebService Creation in Swift

[shilpee]

Some doubts:
How to create a web service in Swift?
Where does web services lies in the project development.
How does web services interact with other software components?

Thanks!

[robertomachorro]

There are many frameworks available to do this. The most widely used and supported is Vapor. Here are some tutorials to get you started:

Getting Started with Server-Side Swift with Vapor 4

Getting Started With Vue and Vapor

There are many more articles at Kodeco. If you are looking to thoroughly understand the framework, the book is what you need:

Server-Side Swift with Vapor

[vulcanccit]

@robertomachorro where in the apple world can you host a web service, is this what XCloud is for? The app I have in mind, I do not have a server or a hosting company…I know there are things like Amazon Web Services, but I think that is more for the .Net world, is there such a thing for IOS/Android web services?

[robertomachorro]

Most of us that develop server side using macOS and Swift use Vapor. Which is cross platform and typically hosted under Linux. That ids a good thing, houston options are plentiful and less cost.

[vulcanccit]

Ok like a godaddy Linux host? Which most are… cpanel and the like?

[robertomachorro]

I won’t discredit hosts, they all have a purpose. I would personally go with Heroku, AWS, Azure, etc.

[vulcanccit]

@robertomachorro Curious if you have looked into the new .Net Maui ?

[robertomachorro]

I did, it is a continuation of Xamarin Forms, which in turn would be of XAML. It still needs work, I looked into it recently for a project and decided to build native for Windows and macOS, with shared C# code, native GUI.