Server Side Swift with Vapor

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" summary

Builds a working API server in Swift using Vapor and the Vapor CLI, shows creating a project with Xcode 9 and Homebrew, and pulls dependencies with Swift Package Manager. Implements a Person model, registers migrations, and uses in-memory SQLite for quick testing. Demonstrates GET/POST/PUT endpoints that return 200 and persist to memory, notes the data resets on restart. Claims setup takes about a minute to scaffold and the demo actually runs locally using the provided vapor commands.

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" chapters (8)

1. 0:00Intro
2. 6:49Installing Vapor
3. 9:27Vapor Build
4. 18:09Building a REST API
5. 21:28Setting up a database
6. 27:59Setting up methods
7. 31:24Post method
8. 44:42Update person

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