Ankur Patel - Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

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Ankur Patel is a web and mobile application developer specializing in iOS, with a passion for making innovative consumer applications. Ankur is a generalist who has worked with a variety of programming languages, such as Objective-C, Ruby, JavaScript, Swift, Java, and C. He has held multiple roles in firms both big and small, including IBM, Oracle, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Shutterstock, and MyTime. He is also the author of the book Learning Swift - Building an iOS Game, which teaches readers how to build an iOS game and publish it to the App Store.

Albert Wold lives in Tempe, Arizona, with his wife and two children. He has always had an enthusiasm for programming and was initially attracted to it at the age of eight while wanting to learn to build a game. He has spent the last few years focusing on iOS development and is a big fan of the Swift programming language.

Vinod Madigeri is a curious software engineer with a particular interest in app design and development. He has worked in several industries (telecommunication, game technologies, and consumer electronics) as a developer, team leader, and mentor, writing software in C, C++, C#, Objective-C, and Swift.

Vinod has been doing this professionally for 8 years and had been goofing with computers for 12 years before that. Vinod was also a technical reviewer of ObjectOriented Programming with Swift and Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5.

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This book is about building cross-platform software solution using Swift. The book will take the reader on a journey of building an app for iOS and extending the app to a different platform, such as the web and tvOS. The app will start out simple, but get more and more complex as it progresses. Toward the end, we will have a product that will work on iOS, tvOS, and in the browser and have a server component, all written entirely in Swift.

Through this journey, we will learn how Swift has progressed from a language used just for iOS to a language that can be used on the server side. We will also learn how to build server-side packages using Swift and Vapor, which is one of the most popular Swift packages for building web servers. Using Vapor, we will build a full-stack web application that will act as an API server for our iOS and tvOS app, and will also be our web server, which will render a web view of our app. Several technologies will be covered while building the backend, including MongoDB, which is a non-relational database.

We will be using Swift 4 throughout the book and will cover new features introduced in this version of Swift. We will use Xcode 9 as our IDE to build for these different platforms, and readers will learn how to share code and development tools to make development fun and productive. We will also use Vapor 2.0 to build our server in Swift, and learn how the framework makes it easy to build rich backends for our application.