Server Side Swift with Vapor: Making a Web App | Ray Wenderlich

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Learn how to make a simple web app to list, create, and delete objects using Vapor, a popular server side swift framework.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/5003-server-side-swift-with-vapor-making-a-web-app
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good one, as usual :+1:t3:

although, in the implementation of addAcronym (and deleteAcronym), I’d rather just return the value of a call to indexView instead of the redirect, so basically return indexView(request).

just a personal choice / opinion thing, I guess :wink:

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Thank you @rwenderlich great tutorial,
it would be great if you can make an advanced course on Vapor .
Have a good one

YoelL

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Awesome tutorials! Advanced course on Vapor would be incredibly beneficial. How to make it secure, advanced interaction with database and etc. Thank you so much!

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@goranche Thanks! There is one advantage to using the redirect though (which I should have mentioned in the video)! :]

Imagine you don’t redirect, and return try indexView(request: request) instead. Then when you add an acronym, your browser is displaying the result of the POST to /til, and if you refresh the page, the browser effectively tries to re-post the same acronym (which isn’t desired; really the user probably just wants to refresh the latest list of acronyms). You get a warning like this:

Similarly, in the deleting an acronym case, the browser is displaying the result of a POST to /til/acronymId/delete:

And if you refreshed the browser, it would try and delete that acronym instead.

By redirecting to index, if you refresh the page it doesn’t try to re-add or delete anything. I hope that makes sense, and thanks for pointing this out as I’ll be sure to mention this if I ever cover this again! :]

@yoele @booorisss Thanks for your kind words and suggestions! :]

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huh :thinking: hadn’t thought of that, but yes, you’re right :sweat_smile:

hope you didn’t waste too much time trying it out :relaxed:

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Thanks for another tut, we’re building up a nice website now.

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Thanks Ray. You are awesome. From Peru!!!

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@alexhedley @keyner Thanks guys! :]

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Another app made with vapor

http://www.nsregularexpression.com/

Code is on GitHub to see how it’s done

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Cool, thanks for pointing this out @alexhedley!

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How can we return different Response for different consumers in controller class, like I want to return below response for web-site

        return Response(redirect: "/v1/student")

and different response for mobile apps like below

        return try JSON(node: [
            "error" : false,
            "message" : "Student added successfully"
            ])

I am not getting how to achieve this.

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Hi, did anyone come across this error when playing the video “The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.”? I tried both Chrome and Safari.

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@chwang I just tried and it’s loading OK for me, and haven’t heard of anyone else w/ issues. Maybe check your connection?

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@rwenderlich you are right, it was my connection issue, thanks!

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@rwenderlich
Great series. Can we possibly organize the videos into a playlist so we can follow them in the right order.

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